Ramblings
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Petit St. Vincent
Woke up far too early, wandered to the stern, observed the light and went back to bed. Got up again around 06:30. We decreed today to be a day of rest; we’ll go up to the Cays tomorrow. Nipped across to Petit Martinique (part of Grenada’s territory, so the yacht would have to clear customs…
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Union to Petit St. Vincent
Up before any one else today. ‘Nature’ channel is in full swing as the pelicans catch breakfast. Watched 3 fishermen drift along the bay, using a hand-thrown net to catch bait fish – the pelicans don’t seem to care at all. Around 09:00, Mum and I took the dinghy over to where the birds were…
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Java, I Stab At Thee!
I’m doing some final tuning work on the Puppet recipes for our Glassfish installation, and Java has reared one of its ugly heads again. In this case, it’s the whole management of the command line arguments for the JVM. The majority of the arguments we need to configure take the form -D$variable=$value -XX:$variable=$value The problem…
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Crash (but not burn)
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.
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Changing hosting providers
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 so, I’ve noticed a distinct…
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New tricks: Exchange “Send As”
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 listed object (ie, account). Learn…