rsync is brilliant at coping with interruptions

Just make sure you run it with -P if bandwidth is scarce and spotty.

I have had great experiences using the "Java EE" toolkit (basically just a combination of servlet and JPA technologies) and Spring MVC (Spring's front-end Web framework) to build nice clean modern Web sites and applications.

The great thing about this combination is nothing is too different from the stuff you've done before if you've done any medium- to large-scale Java programming before. Multiple vendors, commercial and FOSS, implement the specifications. JPA is one of the better ORMs I've seen (second only to CLSQL and probably more comprehensive, anyway). Most everything is done with simple annotations. And Spring is very well-mannered; you can take as much or as little as you like. Once I had to hook a Web front-end up to an application with a custom authentication system... it was cake to implement the Spring interfaces and suddenly my application was a fully acceptable auth provider for its own Web interface.

I have started a write-up on this at http://quadium.net/~vsync/tech/java-servers/ and my goal was to consolidate and smooth some of the information I had to scrounge over the years about the process. There is a lot of Java information out there but lots is outdated and much seems to assume familiarity or use of this or that IDE, and at least online I haven't found many comprehensive sources. That said, sadly once you get past the first bits of my write-up it gets to be more and more of an outline. But your perspective as someone familiar with Java but wanting to get into this aspect of it would be greatly appreciated.

If you're interested I believe a while ago someone on Reddit gave me some links to some Spring MVC tutorials that seemed decent as well. I can try to dig them up if you'd like.

I was hoping for something more dramatic. All I got was on one apparently long-suffering person's ignore list:

<vsync> Hi all, can I ask a question?
<vsync> I'm trying to get into hacking and I heard LUA is a good place to start, you can make viruses with it and everything right? I want to be able to pwn some guys giving me trouble in DCC haha
<Vinnie_win> this bs again?
<vsync> My only concern is LUA might be too slow being interpreted and all, I heard Stuxnet was like 20 megabits, isn't that too slow to do math and stuff with?
<Vinnie_win> Your next statement should be a reason why I shouldn't put you on ignore
<vsync> Um cuz you'll be my first target if you do haha, duh
<Vinnie_win> vsync: okay, now you've done it. prepare to be...derezzed!
* Vinnie_win adds vsync to ignore list
* vsync controls the horizontal and the vertical

Excuse me, the thumbnails in my screenshots collection deceived me. Firefox cookie approval dialog.

This used to be the default setting in many browsers. It changed because people complained it asked them annoying questions, and site authors complained about users that had the temerity to refuse cookies.

I was going to give you a screenshot of exactly that preferences dialog in Firefox to smugly help you do that, but it looks like the simplification Nazis ripped that out too. It used to look like this.

You can still configure it in, of all places, the "history" settings. Once you do so, it acts exactly as you want.

It's a term of art[1].

1. term of art

There isn't any such thing as a hidden network when you're broadcasting it on a radio. And unless Google was brute-forcing everyone's encryption keys, they got to nothing private that anyone felt important to conceal.

Here is a video I took from Hot Club in Providence RI right next to the hurricane barriers. No danger, people standing around chiling (the bar we were at remained open and we were able to get nice rums and beers and enjoy the drizzle and light breeze), and this clearly irritated the CNN anchor for the threat to the narrative she was pushing

I wonder how hard it'd be to build CLISP or SBCL using the NDK.

That's funny, I have a Droid 2 Global and it's great. Well, once I disabled as much of the crap that Motorola bundled with it and removed their terrible widgets. Suddenly I stopped having problems booting the shell and my battery life literally doubled.

Know what caused the worst CPU and power consumption? The RSS reader. A technology literally designed for occasional checking and low bandwidth consumption.

Magically, I can install a dozen widgets from other random third party vendors with no problems. Foursquare? Twidroid? Reddit is Fun? All fine, all on my home screen and auto-updating. Yet Motorola, with the ability to do literally months of integration testing, can't make an app that would be an easy exercise for any first-year CS student without FUBARing it all up. I don't even know why they bothered because Android comes with a news app ANYWAY that actually works. Pathetic.

Here's my own attempt at something like this, focusing specifically on scientific fact-checking:

Science Rumors

You can do the same with by ssh'ing to the first server and scp'ing a file from it to the second, but that requires generating keypairs and copying the public keys around.

Check out SSH Agent Forwarding some time.

They talk about improving concentration yet they recommend flickery distracting fluorescent lights? Not a source I'd go to for reliable advice on productivity.

I do like plants in the office though.

And your password. Mine's hunter2. Don't worry, Slashdot encrypts it so only I can see my own password. It's very convenient.

I would scoff at this guy if not for Facebook insisting on becoming integrated into every Web site and application possible. Positioning themselves as a trusted authentication broker, and banning alternate accounts, puts them in a position of a bottleneck for access to information and services. Honestly, I'd try to find - in addition to friends and family - a business that he had authenticated with using Facebook, and then sue them for tortious interference of contracts, or whatever the legal jargon is.