Maven Exec Plug-In for running POJO applications
I needed to run a plain Java application as part of one of my maven projects – it’s a tool for priming an RDF ontology database with some fixed content...
SciTE tweaks
My favourite text editor for Windows and Linux is SciTE. Generally speaking, it does everything the way that I like it done, and is fairly lightweight to start up. For...
DNS attack and speed of response
OK, there’s a attack vector using cache poisoning to attack DNS servers doing the rounds at the moment. But there are also patches for DNS server operators to apply. So...
Setting HTTP proxy for Amarok in Gnome
By far my favourite music player for Linux is Amarok (although I wish it had a way to play random albums as well as random tracks). However, when I’m behind...
Fedora 9 first impressions
I spent some time yesterday updating my laptop to use the newly-released Fedora 9 Linux release. It wasn’t a disaster – indeed, much of it went quite smoothly. Nevertheless, I...