Tag: wayback machine
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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…
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An opaque Glassfish error
Doing more testing at work today, and decided to pickup the latest compiled output from the build server. Pinged one of the developers about that, and apparently it means that the transaction-type in ejb-jar.xml is wrong. Yay. For a reason I cannot fathom, Google had no results for this error either.
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Cricket.
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 until he’s out. When…