Java programming 101

So here I am, in class hearing about "Object Technology in Java" and working on some of the examples. Thought I'd share and maybe explain a bit about java in the process. [start code] // First I need to import some predefined libraries that allow me to

Yet Another Busy Weekend (YABW)

Friday Night - We had some friends over, had a few drinks and watch 'Empire Records' which is a group fav! good music, good lines and a bubble-gum story line -- Perfect! Saturday - Made some great curry, then watched a sub-titled chinese movie on OMNI-2, it was

Kung-Tunes

I started running Kung-Tunes, and it is now recording my last track into this html file [http://ddll.sdf1.net/music/trackinfo.html] and my last 20 tracks into this file [http://ddll.sdf1.net/music/tracklist.html]. I need to move this into the main page at some point

Legally hacking

Sometimes you feel like hacking, but there is that legal issue that stops you from playing around, so here are a couple of sites to help out. For newbies try www.try2hack.nl [http://www.try2hack.nl/], its a lot of web based hacking, fairly simple challenges. If your more

Social aspects of being a geek.

Need to venture into the outside world? I found this interesting website called Meet Up [http://www.meetup.com] from here you can drill down to your city like Toronto [http://www.meetup.com/locale/ca/toronto] find a meet up that interests you and go and meet some new

Police request DNA samples

In efforts to piss off all 2600 members [http://www.2600.com], the Police thinks its a good idea to ask everyone for DNA samples to put in there database until they find the murderer of Holly Jones [http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030520.wholly0520/BNStory/National/?query=

Canada training cyber-terrorists

Got this from Slashdot [http://www.slashdot.org], supposedly the University of Calgary is going to teach a select group of students how to write viruses "It's kind of a touchy subject if the world is losing trillions of dollars a year because of lockdown time or

BIO Part 1

[I thought I should write a series of bio blog entries so folks could get an understanding of who I am, also its good to get these kinds of thoughts down. All good stories start at the begining, so I guess I should start there.] I was born into computers,

Darwin Ports - The Review

On May 9th, I removed fink in favor of Darwin Ports [http://www.opendarwin.org/] . I have to say that the switch was pretty well painless, and considerably better. I am more use to this style of ports layout, coming from my Free/OpenBSD background. The GUI tools, although fairly

No more Buffy.

In a `as-usual' episode, Buffy says goodbye to the sinkhole/Hellmouth/Sunnydale. 5 of my friends and I gathered at Paul and Sonia's house to watch the last episode of Buffy, which overall was a good episode but I wish they did more for the finale of