Kevin's Blog: 04/01/2005

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Electric Rain - Swift 3D Version 4: The Ultimate 3D Vector Tool

Cannot create JDBC driver of class...

If you're getting Cannot create JDBC driver of class... while trying to integrate your MySql or JDBC database with your Tomcat server, check out this thread over at server side for helpful tips. I think the link will take you to the anchor point which has the solution which worked for me. Basically, Tomcat 5.5.7's conf/server.xml file is set up differently than most of the web documentation would lead you to believe (at least, I could never get any of the examples to work for me... but I've been a Tomcat Administrator for all of about 2 hours now, so don't really take this as fact).

USATODAY.com - Pirate Captain wins election

USATODAY.com - Pirate Captain wins election: "RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Aye, matey! The Pirate Captain is now the student government president at North Carolina State University."

NCSU Pirate Captain

NCSU Pirate Captain: "Vote The Pirate Captain
Student Body President"

Think Secret - Revealed: New Power Mac G5, iMac G5, eMac Specs

Highly reliable sources have confirmed the specifications of Apple's forthcoming revisions to its Power Mac G5, iMac G5 and eMac systems, expected to start shipping within a few days of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's April 29th release.

My favorite part is the specs for the new high end G5:

# Dual-2.7GHz

* 512K L2 cache per processor
* Dual 1.35GHz frontside buses
* 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (8GB max.)
* 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
* 256MB DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon 9650 video card

Although we're planning on getting one of the new iMacs, the G5 tower is looking very tempting...

All About MP3 Piranha

"MP3 Piranha is a Java application that enables you to query Amazon for information about their digital music files. You can download MP3 Piranha at http://www.capescience.com/piranha/.

For people who are integrating MP3 collections with Amazon SOAP services...

Ad-Aware SE Personal - Software - Lavasoft

Ad-Aware SE Personal - Software - Lavasoft: "Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level. "

Downloader-YH Trojan

Just a dump of the Downloader-YH trojan so I can remove it from a friend's computer this weekend without having to go searching the net for this link again.

Main Page - Log4E

Main Page - Log4E: "Log4E
Log4E is a free Eclipse Plugin which helps you to use your logger easily in Java Projects.
The Plugin Log4E is not bound to any special logging framework. Thus you might be able to adapt to your own logger by defining your own templates using the preferences. It has active support for Log4j, Commons Logging and JDK 1.4 logging."