September 2006 – Kasperian Moving Parts

Fix for Linux PPC, IBM JDK, and Moneydance Bug

Saturday September 30, 2006

Wow. You know… I’ve worked around this annoyance for FAR too long… I’d blogged previously (5 months + ago???) about a bug that affects Moneydance with IBM’s JRE/JDK (you know… the ONLY one that you can find for Linux PowerPC!!) with online transaction downloading. So I decided to poke at it a bit again today and what do you know? I found a solution! As it turns out, to solve the moneydance problem with SSLContext and IBM’s JRE, change $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security like this: # diff -pruN java.security.original java.security — java.security.original 2006-09-30 16:09:38.000000000 -0400 +++ java.security 2006-09-30 16:11:48.000000000 -0400 @@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ # # List of providers and their preference orders (see above): # -security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2 -security.provider.2=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE -security.provider.3=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider -security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath -security.provider.5=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL +#security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2 +security.provider.1=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE Read more…

KDE, Life in General, Open Source

That Which Takes My Time

Sunday September 24, 2006

It’s a frustrating thing to not have enough time to do that which you want. Or rather, there are so many things that I do want to do and so many things that I do need to do that there are choices that must be made to be a responsible, loving husband, Daddy, employee, hacker, game-player, and Christian. My greatest passion as a by-nature-geek is Open Source software. Specifically, the Open Source desktop. Professionally, Open Source has SO much value to companies that I am constantly finding ways of showing those at work of how the various solutions Open Source provides are the best-fitting tool for the needs we have. Personally (or “speaking from a not-getting-paid-for-stuff perspective”), I have been Read more…

Movies

UltraViolet

Just finally had the chance to see this tonight and I was very pleasantly surprised! I wasn’t honestly sure what to expect from the commercials, but it was much better-done and much less focused on over-the-top gore and violence than I had thought. Bravo to Kurt Wimmer for that!! And honestly, bravo to Mr. Wimmer for an incredibly well-thought-out, well-crafted, well-shot, well-cast, and well-executed piece of film. Amazing. Milla Jovovich was perfect in this movie too, I might add. And I’m not referring just to her beauty. She completely sold the part of Violet; and her grace, timing, and athletic ability were such that I have a hard time imagining anyone else pulling it off as well. Hm. For that Read more…

Movies

V for Vendetta

Saturday September 23, 2006

Wow. Movies always affect me more than they probably should. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, necessarily, but it’s definitely a thing. I just tonight had the chance to watch V for Vendetta. I’ve never read the graphic novel, and as such I came to the movie with pretty much no expectations and no history with the story line. I did read something somewhere that made me think that the story hinged on Natalie Portman’s character being raped, though, and I’m quite happy to find that it did not and that she was not. I’ll leave the story’s synopsis for those who enjoy such things are are better equipped for this one. But wow. Read more…

Life in General

The Timeless Power of a Sunset

Sunday September 17, 2006

That, my friend, is pure joy. I enjoyed exactly that sort of pleasure just yesterday. We went down to Newport, the Kasper family, we did. Walked quite a distance around Fort Adams, which was really, really fun. We shall definitely have to go back at some point and take the tours. Drove then down to our favorite spot in Newport–Brenton Point State Park–and explored all around the tidepools, shoreline, rocks, and such. The water was pretty cold already, but it felt invigorating on one’s legs and feet. Made you feel good to just be alive and to be a part of the vastly larger-than-you ocean! My darling bride and I found a cozy little rock to sit on and hold Read more…