sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 (it replaces the default value of 1)

One of the most readable, original blogers out there, writing on software development practice and techniques - Joel Spolsky - published an excellent 3 part Talk at Yale: Part1, Part2 and Part3. You will find out: - what two computer science courses were most useful in his university studies (one that was not really a comp-sci and one he decided to drop) - why is it tough to be an in-house programmer

in case you have not noticed - Interface21 aka SpringSource (great name change, btw) runs a blog with lots of hidden treasures inside. Recent article describes new addition to Spring portfolio which is territory within my "watched space": enterprise integration. See the blog entry for more. If you are in corporate space that is keen on "standards", the comparison of Spring vs EJB3 is very good article as well. Not that EJB would matter too much these days (IMHO) - but a nice read nevertheless.