Archive for February, 2008

–purge and tomcat5

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I accidentally messed up some libraries in tomcat5 when trying to get JSTL working. Since my install was a default, I thought I would just remove it using apt-get remove –purge and then reinstall. Apparently, at least in ubuntu-dapper, that command will wipe out libraries in libtomcat5-java. I kept receiving this error until I also purged and reinstalled it:

 Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap

Getting 32bit Binaries to work on 64bit Ubuntu

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

To get skype, flash, wengophone, and gizmo to work I used a nice little utility known as getlibs.

After you force install the package, with “sudo dpkg -i –force-all filename.deb”, run getlibs as root on the binary (usually in /usr/bin/ or /usr/sbin), it will make sure you have all the 32 bit libraries you need in order for it to run.

Gizmo Settings

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

This is mostly for my own reference, but I’m letting it be public on the off chance someone stumbles upon this blog searching for this information.

Pidgin Setup:

Username: <gizmo username>
Domain: chat.gizmoproject.com
Protocol: XMPP (Jabber)

That should be all you need, although my buddy list is empty except alice and she is not online.

SIP Client Setup:

User name: <gizmo phone number>
Domain: proxy01.sipphone.com
Registrar: proxy01.sipphone.com
STU server: stun01.sipphone.com

For whatever reason, you will need to make your password lowercase here. It didn’t work when I used my regular password.

Remember to vote!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

The maryland primary is tomorrow! Go to the Maryland board of elections website for more info.

The Baltimore Sun is saying:

tomorrow’s election could be the most important presidential primary in decades for Maryland voters.

The Beauty of Redundancy

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I saw this post over at election updates and this piece piqued my interest:

Also, I talked to an election official here in Utah who noted that if that happened here and someone stole the vote cartridges, where we use DREs, they would download the votes directly from the voting machines. Also, the thief would have to steal the paper trails too, which are in a different sealed bag.

Redundancy is a good thing. You could achieve something similar with a PCOS machine.