Forgiveness

Sometimes, I hear things so remarkable that I have to share them with others, so bear with me.

In today's church service, the pastor shared this statement:

If you withhold forgiveness, it's like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die!

Wow; that's profound! It was a great sermon; if you'd like to check it out, visit the WVPC website and select the Sep 20, 2009 message, "Six Words that will Change Your Life".

The Perfect City

I like David Byrne's quirky way of looking at things. Check out his article on "the Perfect City", it's an enlightening and enjoyable read.

Getting Sun Java and Groovy Working on CentOS 5.3

I had a devil of a time getting Sun Java, Groovy, and the GraphicsRenderer class working on CentOS 5.3. Furthermore, Google searches for tips on the Internet failed to turn up any directly relevant results.

Therefore, by research, trial and error, I came up with this simple method which WORKS:

1. Download the Sun Java JDK RPM and install it.
2. Download the unofficial Groovy binary RPM from Codehaus.org and install it.
3. Download the GraphicsBuilder module from Codehaus, too.
4. Unzip GraphicsBuilder in /tmp.
5. export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/share/groovy
6. Drop all the GraphicsBuilder jar files into $GROOVY_HOME/lib.
7. Copy or move the GraphicsBuilder bin directory to $GROOVY_HOME.
8. Add the following lines to your .bashrc:

# Java setup for CentOS

export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/share/groovy
export JAVA="sun"
export JPATH="/usr/java/default"
export JAVA_HOME="$JPATH"
export CLASSPATH="$JPATH/lib:/usr/share/groovy/lib"

*THEN* make sure you add /usr/java/default/bin BEFORE /usr/bin in the shell PATH!

NOW you can use groovy from a bash command prompt (at last!)

What's Going on with CentOS?

Realizing that it's been a while since there's been a CentOS release beyond 5.3, I popped over to the centos.org website and was surprised to read that there have been some project management changes in the wind.

You might want to check it out, too.