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Welcome to the website for Nathan Crause. Here you will find my blog about science, technology, gadgets and programming, some information about me and my portfolio.
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Unapologetically A Child of Christ
Having been through a bit of a transformation in my life, much of it actually rooted in science - hard for the average Athiest to believe, I know, but my journey through science had led me back to our Lord Jesus Christ.
I've chosen not to hide this fact, and will even have a new category on my blog where I explore the science which led me to my beliefs.
Why IE6 Just Won't Die
Today, Sept 1 2010, we are still stuck trying to get sites to work with IE6. To think just 2 years ago people were always saying IE6 is dying, and yet here we sit, stuck with the beast.
And you know, I completely understand that companies and individuals who have invested in their IT infrastructure …
My Little (Java) World is Crumbling
A relative of mine pointed me to some news articles of how Oracle is handling the various pieces of technology they inherited from Sun Microsystems. Needless to say, it's dismal.
OpenOffice - basically on the way out. OpenSolaris - killed. MySQL - serious question marks. And now they're also suing G…
Quick Rant
Just a quick rant today - I've been trying to use Tomcat 6 + Hibernate Persistence using NetBeans IDE 6.9 and so far, I am seriously unimpressed. In fact, aside from the Java language (which I enjoy programming in), the whole Java servlets system seems to be a fairly large mess.
Here's an example wi…
Thoughts on IE9
Ever since I first read that Microsoft was working on IE9, I've had a keen interest - not only because IE still represents the lion's share of the browser market, but also because of the features promised.
Now, let me say right now that I've given up long ago believing 90% of what Microsoft says the…
Ant-contrib + NetBeans
I've seen one or two posts on how to try to easily use ant-contrib from within a NetBeans project. I didn't like solution one because it requires changing files within the NetBeans directory structure (something I am always reluctant to do), and solution two seemed too rely too heavily on relative p…
Ubuntu 10.04 + PHP 5.3 + XMail
If you install XMail on your Ubuntu 10.04 server, you will find that PHP won't be able to send mail out. You will repeatedly an error similar to this:
/var/lib/xmail/spool/temp/1277773767000.23491.p2198888.pubip.serverbeach.com: Permission denied
Don't bother with file permissions - they don't work.…
Apache 2.2 + Tomcat 6 + mod_proxy
After stumbling around with lousy documentation and zero examples, I finally found at least one site which hinted at how to do this, and led me to this solution.
Your virtual host file should look something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName j.digitalcove.ca DocumentRoot /usr/local/tomcat …
Oil Disaster - YOU'RE More Responsible Than You Think
Every day I hear how terrible BP is, and how inept the US government is for not throwing nukes at everything, and blah, blah, blah, blah.
However, there's really only one person to blame.
YOU ... the consumer.
YOU didn't want an electric car because it didn't go fast enough and wasn't "cool" enough.
Lessons from the Past - Famous Quotes
I've always been struck by how people in the tech industry always forget lessons of the past, and always forget those little pearls of wisdom that came before. Here are a few choice ones, and my comments included.
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft build…
Ubuntu 10.04 - Take Two
After working in Ubuntu 10.04 for a bit, I have one major gripe - OpenJDK/IcedTea. I have no idea whose decision it was to drop the official Sun JDK from the repositories (or if Oracle had a part to play in this), but OpenJDK is a pile of steamy dog-droppings.
Since upgrading (and being forced to sw…
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Disclosure Notice
Please note that some of the older posts in this blog were sponsored (this is no longer the case). The content was not provided by the sponsor, and were a true reflection of my own opinion on the subject matter, but be aware that a mutual transaction may have occurred.
Index
- Why IE6 Just Won't Die
- My Little (Java) World is Crumbling
- Quick Rant
- Thoughts on IE9
- Ant-contrib + NetBeans
- Ubuntu 10.04 + PHP 5.3 + XMail
- Apache 2.2 + Tomcat 6 + mod_proxy
- Oil Disaster - YOU'RE More Responsible Than You Think
- Lessons from the Past - Famous Quotes
- Ubuntu 10.04 - Take Two
- PHP JSONz
- Java Applets + Ubuntu 10.04 = Clusterfuck
- Function Aliasing in PHP
- 6 Degrees of Separation
- Blender 3D
- Ubuntu 10.04 First Impressions
- Does Facebook Privacy Worry Me?
- Class Proxy in PHP
- Adobe vs. Apple: War of Worlds Escalating
- Is Valve Becoming Linux Friendly?
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