I logged into my email today to 50+ emails from eBay. My initial reaction was: Great! Google’s email SPAM filter has finally broken down. Unfortunately, it was not a simple case of spoofed eBay emails making it through the trusty SPAM filter. My eBay account had been hacked. Some one had gained access to my [...]

I posted earlier today about the bug in Ubuntu Feisty that causes Java apps that use GUI to fail. It turns out it is an upstream bug in Java 6 itself that is brought out by new xcb code in X11. As of now, it is unclear if Ubuntu will choose to downgrade X11 packages [...]

Upgraded packages in Ubuntu Feisty in the past 24 hours have broken Java 6 (package sun-java6). Netbeans and other Java GUI applications no longer work. The error is as follows: $ /opt/netbeans-5.5/bin/netbeans java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed. Aborted (core dumped) Bug #86103 has been filed at launchpad.net It seems to be an issue with [...]

Dreamhost users can vote on two suggestions to support IPv6 with Dreamhost plans.  One is to simply add AAAA record support to their DNS management interface.  The other is to add IPv6 connectivity either as part of existing plans or as a separate plan. (Not clear) If you have a plan with Dreamhost, make sure [...]

I finally made the permanent switch to IPv6 connectivity. Over the past few years, I played around with it several times, but recently when the cable modem provider took away my pack of extra dynamic IPv4 addresses I decided the time was right to make the leap. It is amazing how much faster developing peer-to-peer [...]