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A New Hoax On The Loose

January 25th, 2004

A number of people have contacted me about the following email:


Subject: Important News About Your Bank Account

To whom it may concern;

In cooperation with the Department Of Homeland Security, Federal, State and Local Governments your account has been denied insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation due to suspected violations of the Patriot Act. While we have only a limited amount of evidence gathered on your account at this time it is enough to suspect that currency violations may have occurred in your account and due to this activity we have withdrawn Federal Deposit Insurance on your account until we verify that your account has not been used in a violation of the Patriot Act.

As a result Department Of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to suspend all deposit insurance on your account until such time as we can verify your identity and your account information.

Please verify through our IDVerify below. This information will be checked against a federal government database for identity verification. This only takes up to a minute and when we have verified your identity you will be notified of said verification and all suspensions of insurance on your account will be lifted.

http://www.fdic.gov/idverify/cgi-bin/index.htm

Failure to use IDVerify below will cause all insurance for your account to be terminated and all records of your account history will be sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. for analysis and verification. Failure to provide proper identity may also result in a visit from Local,State or Federal Government or Homeland Security Officials.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Donald E. Powell

Chairman Emeritus FDIC

John D. Hawke, Jr.

Please let others know about this.

nick Uncategorized

Specifying Connection Pools in Hibernate

January 18th, 2004

The Hibernate reference documentation, which is generally quite good, seems to gloss over how to specify a third-party connection pool. The docs state that if you simply specify the hibernate.c3p0.* properties in your config file, the C3P0 pool will be used. This didn’t seem to work for me.

Instead, I needed to have the following in my hibernate.properties file:

hibernate.connection.provider_class=net.sf.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider

Which got it working. What’s the problem with the default Hibernate pool? It’s not production ready. Just generally useful for unit tests and experimenting.

Hope this clears some things up for you.

nick Uncategorized

Upgrade to b2evolution

January 17th, 2004

After a long break, I’ve upgraded from b2 to b2evolution. I looked at Roller and WordPress in addition before making my decision. For my basic blogging needs, b2evolution is perfect.

My move to Chicago is coming up in a week or two. I should be back to regular posting once that is complete and I get settled.

There is at least one new article in the pipeline on Hibernate. It should be out in early March.

nick Uncategorized