For an Apache user, coming to IIS can be a little disorienting. One thing you’ll eventually come across is wanting Virtual Hosts. Here are some links I found useful in telling you where in the forest of menus you can enable it: IIS Answers MSDN’s very own
These I found useful in helping identify pieces that need to be looked at if you want to lock down an IIS server before putting it online: U of Washington’s Guidelines Security Focus Guidelines
I’ve been playing with JOnAS lately and have been puzzling out how to get RMI working through a firewall. Normally RMI uses dynamic ports which represents pain and suffering if you want to use JMX. The documentation for JOnAS is located here. After glancing at the JOnAS config I was disheartened to find it wasn’t […]
Penguin Pete took a whirlwind test drive of Plan 9 and posted a review here. I found his review quite informative and I learned a bit from his travails trying to get the hang of Plan 9. One thing that was disappointing was reading his comments. It seems there are some people who have to […]
Here’s one expat’s impressions after spending a year in Vietnam. He compares it to life in China… In China, the most common observations were: No one speaks Chinese to foreigners No such thing as lining up Spitting Read it yourself
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Microsoft’s Outlook email client (historically, the world’s flypaper of security bugs) -Jeffrey Friedl Read it yourself
If you are one of those waiting to get onto the HD bandwagon I’m sure you’re now wondering which format will win out. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. I have no answers but Cracked.com has a rather tongue-in-cheek breakdown on the format wars My personal opinion? Stay away until the dust clears if you can live without […]
This looks very cool If the picture doesn’t seem clear, it’s a little robot that acts as a portable mini speaker for your music devices Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up from Quick Journal.
This looks very cool If the picture doesn’t seem clear, it’s a little robot that acts as a portable mini speaker for your music devices Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up from Quick Journal.
One day I started having issues with my clients trying to mount or re-mount a NFS share. Here’s what it looked like: On machine 1: $ mount /shared mount: RPC: Program not registered On machine 2: :~$ mount /shared mount to NFS server ‘nfs’ failed: server is down. I have something like /shared as a […]
Well I got hit by this bug and it’s really annoying. On reboot of a Linux box I’m working with I noticed the system clock was majorly skewed. Since I wasn’t running anything really critical, I decided to update the time via ntpdate so all the system clock would ‘right’ itself out. Then I get […]
This time they’re researching…. solar cooled beer! Won’t solve poverty but will solve lots of other problems. Read it yourself. Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up.
No comment
So I read some articles ( [1], [2], [3]) on a really nice piece of technology called Java Management Extensions (JMX) that allows you to: Watch memory usage of a Java JVM in real time Allows this to be done remotely as well as locally Offers a very nice GUI called JConsole Allows you run […]
I’m trying to get the hang of Eclipse and I always seem to find myself getting annoyed with all the documentation I find for newbies. My goal is the following: Install an Eclipse plugin under Linux Sounds simple, right? Well here are some my system configuration settings that I feel are relevant: I’m running Ubuntu […]