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Saturday October 05, 2002

Do You Yahoo? Do you use Yahoo Mail and don't want to pay for POP3 access? Well, I stumbed upon a new tool tonight when I was surfing the roller-cvs link below. YahooPOPs! is a free download for Windows/Linux that makes it possible to get your Yahoo Mail in out Outlook Inbox (or any other POP3 client). I downloaded and installed, and I'm currently watching a dialog that says "Email download status for matt_raible. Downloading email 1 of 15." It's been 2-3 minutes and I haven't received anything yet. Good idea though - I'd LOVE it if this thing works. Is there an OS X version? Posted in The Web at Oct 05 2002, 03:44:53 PM MDT Add a Comment

Dave's a workin'. If you're subscribed to the roller-cvs mailing list - you can see that Dave is checking in stuff like a madman tonight! I think that's how most open source projects are successful - one guy writes it, works his butt off and everyone else tags along for the ride. Am I wrong? Let me know - but that seems to be how Struts got started by Craig. Notice that I said started - it's not how it is today. Posted in Roller at Oct 05 2002, 03:30:26 PM MDT Add a Comment

Sun is spewing knowledge again. For those that aren't up to speed on JSTL, here's a new tutorial: Faster Development with JavaServer Pages^TM Standard Tag Library (JSTL 1.0). Also, this Tuesday, Craig McClanahan and Amy Fowler, Spec leads of JSF, will host a live chat on JSF. The bad part, it's at 8:00 AM Eastern time which means that I'll have to get up at 6:00 to catch it. I'm a pretty good morning person, so shouldn't be too hard. I've been practicing for the little one lately by going to bed between midnight and 2:00 AM and then waking up again at 6:00 AM. Hope it works. Posted in General at Oct 05 2002, 09:35:32 AM MDT Add a Comment

Hang in there Russ. If you're having a bad week or day, all you have to do is read Russ's situation to feel better.

Russell Beattie has had a tough week, but he is OK - at least in the physical world. In the digital world of cyberspace, however, he is not doing so well. First, he lost his client by accidentally installing Linux over his Windows partition. Next, he lost his server because his ISP, CWIHosting.com, has mysteriously shut down his account. CWIHosting tells him this is because of "police reasons." The CWIHosting support people told him that he needs to email the CTO and CEO to get any further information. Unfortunately, they are not responding to his emails. He is a little worried that he might not be allowed to get into his account and rescue his weblog archives. That is a scary thought.

Russell thinks that "police reasons" might be actually be a mis-spelling of "policy reasons" and perhaps he simply overloaded his shared Java VM by misconfiguring something when he set up OSCache. I hope that is the case. Anyway, Russell is setting up a new account at JohnCompanies.com ISP and hopes to be back on line by Monday or Tuesday. [ Blogging Roller ]

Russ seems like a pretty wholesome guy to me, so I'm guessing it's policy reasons not policing reasons. Nothing like having your site locked out to motivate you to switch hosting providers. I dream of the day, as I'm sure many of you do, that I can host my own site, and not worry about these things. I can't because my ISP doesn't give out static IPs. At the same time, kgbinternet.com hosts this site for $12/month and I get my own Tomcat instance!

I found a cool Mozilla feature while writing this post. I went to Dave's site to copy Russ's story, selected the story, and found "View Selection Source" on my right-click menu. What could be more beautiful on a Saturday afternoon? Me being done with work for the week, but no - I probably have another 10-12 hours to put in this weekend. It's gonna be a late night tonight. Posted in The Web at Oct 05 2002, 09:25:14 AM MDT Add a Comment