A number of signs placed by local Massachusetts authorities incorrectly said Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaoggagoggchaubunaguhgamaugg...while the correct spelling is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Maybe they should be using Amazon's naming conventions: LAKE C45G

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PayPal is currently holding a developer contest. I've an entry. Anyone (developers or not) can vote for the best app. At stake is $100,000 USD. My entry is using voice biometric technology to authorize payments using PayPal's pre-approval API's. There is no password or pin involved. This 2-min youtube video below explains how it works.




If you like my app, I humbly ask for your vote! Voting ends on March 6th 2010

To vote, goto http://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge1
(this is a PayPal owned site) Search for "PoxPay"

http://www.poxpay.com

When my latest son was born I got a little worried since he didn't look at all like me. I decided I needed a discrete device to spy on my wife while I was at work. I started hacking my roomba and made a GåågleBot (pronounced /google-bot/). GåågleBot is a "home crawler" consisting of a vacuum roomba with an on board webserver and camera. While the vacuum goes about its business, it extracts text from the images it takes. The text is later put in a database on the roomba and searchable through a web interface. This was a good pretext for my wife. I, of course, also added the ability to remote control the roomba using AJAX...for spying purposes...hehe.

I created a dedicated site for the little fellow for fun with showcase app. http://www.GaagleBot.com

This is the next version of My AJAX Lego Robot. I'm working on yet another version of my AJAX Remote Controlled thingies...stay tuned.

I'm kicking the tires of Jetty and am in the process of setting it up on a production machine and found that the latest Jetty realeas (6.1.14) has a really easy way to start jetty out running as root and later switch to a uid of your choice which enables you to open up server sockets on the privileged ports 80 & 443. See the README file under {jetty.root}/extras/setuid. The process is just a one-liner...well, there are some more perks as you'll see at the end.

The README seems little bit out of date as my

did all of the compiling and copying steps. However, when I try to launch jetty with the new jetty-setuid.xml config file I get the following error. My jetty-setuid.xml file looks like: For some reason its expecting an integer instead of "jetty"...well well My jetty-setuid.xml now looks like: ...works like a charm.

I've recently started using VirtualBox and find it really good. However, I was setting up port forwarding with NAT according to the documentation and must have made a mistake since I got the following error while restarting the virtual machine

I tried to remove the newly added settings using but I guess I had a typo somewhere in my initial attempt to use setextradata, and I couldn't figure out what the typo was (I had closed the command prompt window and there was no history available). I couldn't find anything online using google so I simple deleted the virtual machine and added it again using the same vdi...worked like a charm. Hope this helps someone out there.