Chris Johnston

I have been working with Jboss for the last 10 months and one thing I have never really looked at was using Log4j or Commons-Logging in my source code. I have always used println statements. So, yesterday after trying to port some external, stand-alone applications to the JBoss server—applications that already have Log4j and Commons-Logging statements in them—I decided to finally figure out how to set it all up.

It was actually easier then I thought it would be. However, I did run into more then a few comments about how hard it was. Anyway, boiled all down, here is the link that I used to set everything up.

Log4j in JBoss — basically, you have to setup your logging to go through JBoss’ logging. And that is where the problem lies. This intermixes your log statements with those of JBoss and renders your log4j.properties file almost useless.

In addition to everything stated in the link above, I had to add a custom section to the log4j.xml file in order to raise Hibernate’s logging to ERROR instead of INFO. Here is what I added:

<category name="net.sf.hibernate">
    <priority value="ERROR"/>
</category>


Here is a post on the JBoss Wiki site about setting up Log4j.

I promise a real post very soon. Just as soon as I have something real to post about. In the meantime…

A history of hacking
This offers an interesting look at hacking covering the last 3- odd years.

First screenshots of Lightning!
See some early screenshots of Mozilla’s calendar plugin for Thunderbird.

A history of the Adobe Photoshop GUI
See screenshots of every single version of Photoshop.

How to use Gmail as your SMTP server
This is a brief overview of how to use gmail as your smtp server. Note: you must have a gmail account for this trick to work, but who doesn’t have one these days

Microsoft Longhorn Screenshots
I have no idea why I am including this, but here it is.

Project Gizmo challenges Skype
Project Gizmo is a new, free VOIP program/company on the market that is set to compete head to head with Skype. Its advantage: it uses a free protocol as opposed to Skype’s very closed and controlled protocol. Also check out the Slashdot post.

Art and Computer Programming
Art and hand-waving are two things that a lot of people consider to go very well together. Art and computer programming, less so.

Picking a Desktop for Your Business or Home
Want a good desktop operating system? Here are some thoughts on how to find the right one for you.

A beginners guide to Dependency Injection
If you’ve haven’t had a chance to learn and apply DI yet, this new article on TSS by Dhananjay Nene will bring you up to speed on the concepts as well as illustrate how DI is done in Spring, PicoContainer, Hivemind, and XWork.

Wicket Samples as NetBeans Projects
Exactly what it says.

Macromedia Podcast #2

Build your own Chat-Cord
…or Using your old plain telephone to call over the Internet.
…or VoIP meets POTS

12 minutes to PC infection
If your Windows computer is not properly protected, chances are it will take all of 12 minutes before it becomes infected, a major security company says.

The winners the 2005 Rails Day competition have been posted. My personal favorite is the grand winner. This is an application that I have been trying to create in J2EE off an on for the past several months and the winner does it in 24 hours in RoR.

These need a post of their own because they are going to be permanently added to a new section on my Links page. These are all links pertaining to wi-fi security. If you want to learn how to crack WEP or WPA then these are the links for you.

Wi-Fi Toys
This is a blog site where the authors write about various subjects all pertaining to wi-fi. It is also the site for a book by the same name.

Remote Exploit

Welcome to remote-exploit.org. We are just a group of people that like to experiment with computers. We hope that we can provide some information back to the public and support the ongoing process of learning.

How To Crack WEP – Part 1: Setup & Network Recon

In this three part series, we will give you a step by step approach to breaking a WEP key. The approach taken will be to standardize as many variables as possible so that you can concentrate on the mechanics of WEP cracking without being hindered by hardware and software bugs. The entire attack is done with publicly available software and doesn’t require special hardware—just a few laptops and wireless cards.

How To Crack WEP - Part 2: Performing the Crack

In this article, we will describe how to use additional tools found on the Auditor CD to capture traffic and use it to crack a WEP key. We’ll also describe how to use deauthentication and packet replay attacks to stimulate the generation of wireless traffic that is a key element of reducing the time it takes to perform a WEP key crack.

How To Crack WEP – Part 3: Securing your WLAN

After demonstrating in How To Crack WEP – Part 1 and Part 2 that WEP cracking is easier than you may have thought, I will now switch gears. In this last part of the WEP Crack How To, I will show you how to take a common sense approach to protecting your wireless network.

I am going to try and start a new section on my blog listing the links that I found interesting each day. Generally, the entries will consist of the link and a quick quote detailing what it is about. I probably won’t comment on any of them. If a comment is needed then it probably requires a larger post.

Windows Software: Ugly, Boring & Uninspired
Software for Windows is generally uninspired, generically cloned, and overwhelmingly wrought with lackluster (read: lousy) user interfaces. There’s too much coal and not enough diamonds within the sphere of downloads.

windows xp services
This is a listing of all the services in Windows XP and how to work with them, or how to shut them off.

Dual Core Linux Performance: Two Penguins are Better than One
With all of the attention on dual core processors lately, it has been real easy to overlook the one application that might benefit more from multiple cores than any other; Linux.

GuiStyles.com
This site hosts some very nice themes for both Gnome and KDE.

I am a bit late in posting this, but for all you Canadians out there, Happy Canada Day.