Some issues with the most recent Tomcat and mod_jk: 1. The oldish app we’re using requires Tomcat to have the following set in the web.xml: enablePooling false. I’m told the … Continue reading »
Crap. TurboTax 2002 includes spyware. I’ve already pre-ordered it, having used it for the past four years. Next year, I’ll wait until January before buying tax software, … Continue reading »
Namazu rocks. It’s a fast, feature-rich search engine that specializes in file-system text indexing. The main use we have for it is to search the various mailing lists … Continue reading »
This looks useful at first glance: http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora9i/solutions/howtos.shtml
I just got a Sony DSC-P51 digital camera. There was a good writeup in the Times a few weeks ago on small cameras. This Sony isn’t that small … Continue reading »
Here’s a kit to make bootable DOS CDs. There are options to make a CD with multiple boot images, and so on. I feel much better now about … Continue reading »
I finally had to clean up LDAP authentication for Apache on the mail server. I had let it continue to use /etc/shadow for authentication for the past year, mainly … Continue reading »
Documentation for open source projects can sometimes be very finicky. Witness the missing HOWTO for integrating MHonArc, a mail-to-HTML converter, with Mailman, a mailing list manager, in the answer … Continue reading »
Some documents on tuning the Solaris kernel, mainly through entries in /etc/system. http://www.princeton.edu/~unix/Solaris/troubleshoot/kerntune.html http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-7009/6jftnqsie?a=view
Yesterday, I had the displeasure of installing Oracle 9i (9.2.0.whatever) on one servers in the collection of soon-to-be demo machines. Some comments about this: 1. There’s the years-outstanding issue of … Continue reading »