Posted by Max Dunn
Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:58:00 GMT | no comments
Alfresco is a new but promising open source document management system. It is Java based and supports many of the latest standards including the JSR-170 file access API, the JSF tag based interface, the Spring framework, JSR-168 portlets and WebDAV file transfers.
While Alfresco is still young and lacks some functionality, it is well architected and shows a lot of promise. Here is some information about its architecture.
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Posted by Max Dunn
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:50:00 GMT | no comments
HDTV (High Definition TV) is so cool, once you see it, you will never want to go back to regular TV. It is like the difference between listening to a weak radio station in the car that has a lot of static, and listening to a crystal-clear CD.
Watching Lost in HDTV, you can see the pores on the actors faces (luckily, there are some nice looking faces you don’t mind seeing close up) and the scenes of the ocean and jungle makes you feel like you are there in Hawaii with them (whoops, I mean some uncharted island) feeling the ocean breezes and tropical humidity.
We don’t watch any non-HD shows—it just isn’t the same. Conversely, there are some shows we watch just because they look gorgeous in HDTV, that we wouldn’t normally watch (like Las Vegas).
The kicker is that we don’t need to pay for cable to get HDTV; we just put on antenna on the roof and get all the local stations for free!
Now setting up an HDTV system is a little complicated, so here is some information on how to do it.
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Posted by Max Dunn
Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:09:00 GMT | no comments
When we moved in September, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to keep the Internet connection to my home server going continuously, so I transfered all the email and web accounts I was hosting to a 1and1 account. I also wanted to update to the latest Mandrake Linux, to get rid of the hodgepodge of application versions I was currently running. So over the last few months, I wiped out my server, updated to Mandrake 2005 and proceeded to reconfigure it, especially as an router with web filtering software.
There were a few tricky things that took a while to figure out, so I wanted to document them in case I have to go through this exercise again.
But rather than clutter up this blog with all the excruciating details, I am going to add them as extended content to this entry. I doubt these notes will be of much use to anyone else, so consider this just an entry of me talking to myself. ;-)
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Posted by Max Dunn
Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:56:00 GMT | 1 comment
This Typo blog is setup to use Markdown, and here are some basic formatting rules.
Input:
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