(If you haven’t read my previous post about my saga with trying to sell a laptop on ebay, you can find it below this post.) I just received a message from ebay that the 2nd highest bidder for this auction was a hijacked account. I won’t post them here since the account has been returned [...]
Are there any honest bidders out there?
Well, I have just had some first-hand experience with what seems to be the latest ebay scam. That is, when you try to sell a laptop, scammers bid on it and use stolen PayPal accounts to pay for it. After a few weeks PayPal takes the money back and your laptop is gone! I had [...]
Serving JSP pages through IIS using Tomcat
UPDATE – This article was written originally in 2002. The main concept of using Tomcat to handle the JSP pages under-the-hood is still the same and this page is probably still useful, however, there are now products available to do this for you such as JspISAPI (which offers a free lite version). If you want [...]
Linix Drivers / Modules
Linux refers to drivers sometimes as modules. Generally root permission is required to use any of these commands: lsmod = lists all modules rmmod = remove a module modprob = add a module drivers are located (usually) /lib/modules PCMCIA devices are controlled by the card manager /etc/pcmcia.conf Network Devices: ifconfig = utility for network iwconfig [...]
Mandrake Linix 10 / Remote Desktop / Terminal Service / VNC
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to remotely control my Mandrake 10 box as I do other Windows servers using Remote Desktop. I found that VNC seems to be the primary method of doing this. Only after compiling and configuring VNC server, though, did I realize that Mandrake 10 [...]
