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Search Plugins I've created couple FireFox/Mozilla search plugins for my blog and linkblog. They are both located here. You can also automatically install them by:

1. Clicking on the FireFox Searchable button located at the bottom of this blog's front page.
2. Clicking on the Search Plugin link located in my linkblog's sidebar.

I did submit them to the Mozilla repository a few weeks back. I just got tired of waiting.

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The Bourne Supremacy

I just love it when a sequel holds up to the original, and this one was even better.

ICMP I'm looking for a way to execute ICMP requests (ping, echo, etc.) as a non-privileged user under Linux Red Hat. I wrote some JNI code to perform my requests. The native library is loaded within a process (web server), which of course is, not running as root. Anybody know of a way to do this? Maybe using some kind of ICMP daemon or proxy? Please let me know.

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Base64

How many implementations of Base64 encoding does Java need?

Sun has a few:

• java.util.prefs.Base64 (non-public)
• javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility
• sun.misc.BASE64Encoder (unofficial)

There are also:

• Open Source Implementations
• Public Domain
• Common

The big boys, such as IBM and BEA, have all taken a stab at it.

I even have my own.

I know we Java coders love to re-implement the same thing over and over and over and over… But someone should put a stop to this insanity.

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Humour

A man appears before a judge one day, asking for a divorce. The judge quietly reviews some papers and then says, “Please tell me why you are seeking a divorce.” “Because," the man says, “I live in a two-story house.” The Judge replies, “What kind of a reason is that? What is the big deal about a two-story house?” The man answers, “Well Judge, one story is ‘I have a headache’ and the other story is ‘It's that time of the month.’”

I, Robot

We went to see I, Robot last weekend, we both really liked it. 

As a teenager I spent a lot of time buried in sci-fi books; devouring 2 or 3 per day, especially during the summer. Asimov never really did it for me. I actually find him quite boring as a writer.

The movie didn't even come close to following the book, which was just fine by me.

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