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Bring it on, spamboy

So for the past few days, I’ve been pestered by some annoying spammer who appears to be going through each of my posts and leaving spam comments. Nothing heavy yet, only about 7 or 8 a day. Thanks to MT3’s comment moderation, nobody has to sully their eyeballs with the spam because all I do is just go into the database and dump the comments.

There’s a pre-release of MT Blacklist for MT3 which I’ve been thinking about installing. I just haven’t found time to get to it yet.

In the meantime, I’ll just do the comment filtering manually.

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Adventures in Java Part 2

Ok, probably sheer coincidence, but with my luck probably not. After installing the Java SDK (1.4.2_05), Mozilla and Firefox broke. All I did was install the Java SDK RPM, copy the JRE plugin to my Mozilla/Firefox plugin directory and restart Firefox. Starting up Firefox, all I get is

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
System error?:: Success

If I try to run firefox-bin directly, it complains about not being able to find and open libmozjs.so, even though it’s right there in the firefox directory!!!

Gaahhhh, stupid computers. Stupid user.

Update: Ok, so I remove Java, Mozilla works again but Firefox is still broken. Install Java again, Mozilla breaks. Remove Java, Mozilla works. Hmmm. Either I have a problem with my Fedora installation, Mozilla/Java is broken or I’m just dumb.

Update 9SEP04: Somebody who found this entry via Google emailed me to see if I had found a solution to the problem. I don’t know if I had, but a few days after writing this entry I installed a new Firefox nightly build and everything has been working fine since then. Currently using the 08SEP nightly build of Firefox and haven’t had any Java related problems so far. Haven’t gotten around to checking out Mozilla yet though.

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Adventures in Java

Teaching files. Residents want teaching files. Faculty want teaching files. Problem is it’s hard to find any really good cheap/free teaching file software out there.

From the RSNA there’s the MIRC project, which I know virtually nothing about, but which one of the residents wants to set up and run.

MIRC wants Tomcat and the Java SDK. Not the runtime, but the SDK.

According to the project website,

The MIRC project develops tools to enable the medical imaging community to share images and information for education, research and clinical practice–within an institution and via the Internet. MIRC provides a common index that can be searched using medically relevant criteria. MIRC also offers an authoring tool that makes it easy to create radiology teaching files and other electronic documents in flexible formats with a common underlying structure.

Should be an interesting project.

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Coming for MT 3.1

Looks like there are a lot of new things coming for MT 3.1 that we can look forward to in about a month or so. Things like scheduled posting and the ability to publish dynamically, which should help ease the pain of rebuilding. Also a plug-in pack with the winners from the plugin contest.

Can’t wait!

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Anatomy of a Nokia 6360

So now that my wife has a new Nokia 3200, I thought I’d disassemble the old phone and see if I could make it work reliably again. I figure cell phones can’t have that many parts inside, so it’s probably just a matter of tightening or reseating any connections between boards.
So let’s see what’s in this thing.
This is the Nokia 6360, albeit a rather beat up one.


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