Ports-Services is a useful service to identify what might be listening on a particular port or what port should particular (well-known) service listen to.
It has some java related ports (RMI, Jini).
It also has trojan listings for the ports and it is a bit scary to see the useful service entries completely overshadowed by the huge number of various malware.
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About a month ago, Steve Kaufmann (creator of theLinguist service) and I had a disagreement on whether grammar is important in studying language. In summary, he thinks that the grammar should be studied last if at all, while I think grammar allows one to create a mental infrastructure that would make learning easier.
Since Steve is currently studying Russian, we agreed to have a Skype discussion where he can demonstrate his Russian to me.
UIMA is a new-ish framework on the block competing/cooperating with GATE framework to do NLP processing, annotation and search. Jon Udell recorded a screencast with a couple of IBM-ers to show off and explain UIMA.
While the screencast moves a little slow for a person familiar with sentence tokenizing principles, it is still interesting to see how it hangs together.
The only problem I see with UIMA is the confusion in licensing.
Dana Nourie lists 10 presentations in tools space that she thinks are worth seeing at JavaOne 2006. My own presentation is there as well (number 7). Guess it struck the chord.
I also have 240+ people booked for my session as of now. No way to tell if that is many or not enough for this stage. But if any of those 240+ are reading this blog, are there any questions on what you would like to know about?
Ethereal is a tool I always use when I have any kind of network related problems. Be it a firewall dropping packets, a server that incorrectly sets cookies or even an overly clever application that tries to obscure the exact network resources it uses. Ethereal collects that network data all the way up and down the network stack and all the way into file formats, such as GIFs and XML. And it allows to filter on any of the fields it understand.