http://www.cricalix.net Going sane since 1978 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:18:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a good day, I learn something new. Today can thus be classified as a good day, even if it did involve a bug that caused a Catalyst 5500 core switch to crash, taking out our entire network. Cisco support wiki on said bug. http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/11/20/crash-but-not-burn/ I've been hosting this site on a Xen host in the UK for the past year - it was cheaper than running the server in-house, and the uplink bandwidth is certainly more than the 1 Mbit/s that my home ADSL is capable of.  However, in the past 6 months or ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/11/02/changing-hosting-providers/ For the longest time, my understanding was that Exchange only allowed 'send on behalf of' through the delegation interface (and thus stamped in the message headers).  Turns out that if an admin with sufficient rights accesses the Security of another account, they can add the 'Send As' option to a ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/10/23/new-tricks-exchange-send-as/ Doing more testing at work today, and decided to pickup the latest compiled output from the build server. Exception occured in J2EEC Phasejava.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown ContainerTransaction type [Requires] com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.IASDeploymentException: Error loading deployment descriptors for module [EJB FILE] -- Unknown ContainerTransaction type [Requires] at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.Deployer.loadDescriptors(Deployer.java:390) Pinged one of the developers about that, and apparently it means ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/10/13/an-opaque-glassfish-error/ When I was younger, one of the guide books for Barbados had the following in it: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/10/08/cricket/ Towards the end of last month, Matt Hernandez dropped me an e-mail enquiring whether I'd be interested in showing up at Cox's Yard for an evening of flamenco/celtic fusion, featuring the Street Shepherd Band with Ana Garcia, and supported by Katie Dove-Dixon. I knew I was on call, but said that ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/10/06/a-flamenco-night/ Orange don't know it yet, but I'm changing my pay-monthly phone to a PAYG phone this weekend.  I've finally succumbed to the lure (and allure) of the HTC Touch Pro, and acquired one on contract with Vodafone.  There are plenty of reviews on the 'net already, so I'll just remark ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/10/03/farewell-orange-hello-vodafone/ $work uses OpenNMS to monitor our various devices (servers, switches, routers, printers etc), mostly via SNMP.  Today, while looking at the various events that had been recorded, I noticed that a relatively simple search was taking more than 2 minutes to process through ~250,000 event rows (plus associated rows in ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/09/17/making-opennms-faster/ Caused by: javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses; nested exception is: class com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPAddressFailedException: 550 5.1.1 User unknown at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.rcptTo(SMTPTransport.java:1130) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:525) at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:151) at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:80) at alt.javax.mail.TransportImpl.send(TransportImpl.java:18) at com.atlassian.mail.server.impl.SMTPMailServerImpl.send(SMTPMailServerImpl.java:168) ... 7 more X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). What a way to end a day that hasn't been one of my better ones (more on that later, maybe).  Having got ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/09/11/java-tomcat-and-weird-abends/ Decided to go to the Great Western Festival (in aid of the regional air ambulance) last weekend.  You'd think that having spent an entire weekend there, accumulating several hundred photos to process, I wouldn't be going back so soon to take even more photos.  Well, I'm not always that logical, ... http://www.cricalix.net/archives/2008/08/06/networking-gw-fest-and-stepping-up-a-gear/