Juan Jose Pablos: how to remote syslog using openwrt
If you need to keep an eye and history about what is going on on your router enable remote login with this command: echo “option ‘log_ip’ ’192.168.1.2′”>> /etc/config/system Change 192.168.1.2 to...
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Anton Tagunov: Political Action Needed For Net Neutrality In The UK
Government wants to abolish net neutrality in the UK. Not a piece of good news. I really like the way Siva has said it:There are a couple of different ways to look at this. The romantic way is that we...
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Bryan Pendleton: I feel the need ... for speed!
Here's a very nice writeup of a recent speed cubing event. I love the Feliks Zemdegs video, can't take my eyes off it! I am not a very fast cuber. I can solve the standard 3x3x3 cube, but it usually...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Hadoop on Harmony
Ignoring management-level politics, the IBM Emerging Technology team have announced their work on getting Harmony to run Hadoop, and added a wiki page on it. This is pretty impressive. Hadoop, deployed...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Field of Use
Stephen Colebourne looks at the FOU restrictions on Java 7 and 8, an explicit statement of what (apparently) Sun said to the ASF when Geir asked them for the TCK for Java SE for Harmony: The use of...
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Trustin Lee: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide in ePub and MOBI format
Mendel Cooper’s Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide is the most definitive and up-to-date guide for Bash. If you are interested in some advanced topics in shell scripting, this book is for you. However, if...
View ArticleJeremias Märki: OSGi Bundle Utility 1.0 released
Writing OSGi bundle manifests by hand is nothing anyone wants to do, although some entries will always need to be added explicitely. The most prominent of tools for automatically getting imports and...
View ArticleMatt Raible: My Comparing JVM Web Frameworks Presentation from Devoxx 2010
This week, I've been having a great time in Antwerp, Belgium at the Devoxx Conference. This morning, I had the pleasure of delivering my Comparing JVM Web Frameworks talk. I thoroughly enjoyed giving...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Reconnecting with omega.contacts.msn.com
Ed Fisher: It seems the certificate that Microsoft uses to secure access to your buddy list was updated with a new wildcard certificate Instructions adapted for Ubuntu/Firefox: Visit...
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Brian W. Fitzpatrick: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chicago Winter
I've now had the same conversation with two different people in the course of a week--the same conversation that I seem to have once every couple of months--the "Chicago winter isn't going to kill you"...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): The Origin of 'You are not expected to...
Copied without permission from Dennis Ritchie's text -- because I had a dickens of a time locating it in the first place. I want to make sure it's preserved. /* You are not expected to understand this...
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Deepal Jayasinghe: Axis2 1.5.3 released
The Apache Axis2 team is pleased to announce the general availabilityof the Axis2 1.5.3 release.1.5.3 is a maintenance release that contains the following improvements:* Improved support for SSL when...
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Luciano Resende: I've been to a A Keysigning Party. Now what ?
Couple weeks ago, I participate in the "ApacheCon Keysigning Party", and that being my first "party" I was a little lost after the party, and I noticed couple of my friends were feeling the same...
View ArticleJuan Jose Pablos: Reduce the size of a dynamic VDI file in VirtualBox
I have got a Virtualbox with debian to build up windows machines using unattended. This virtual HD went up to 54Gb but internaly on 28Gb were used. So when I wanted to move out of that machine it took...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-19
Anti-piracy lawyers ‘knowingly targeted the innocent’, says law body : ‘Following complaints to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Davenport Lyons now stands accused of deliberately ignoring...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Lessons from building large hadoop clusters
Slides by my colleague Phil Day on bringing up large Hadoop clusters. Large is defined as "you don't know the names of all the machines" Lessons from building large clustersView more presentations from...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Fun with Ruby exceptions
I'm currently experimenting with a framework in which exceptional conditions should be handled in a uniform manner -- but have more attributes than just a text message. The first thing I managed to...
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Nick Kew: We never had it so good!
Today’s news: Lord Young quits over ill-advised remarks. Nothing too serious, just the suggestion that he might be out of touch with reality. The prime minister’s failure to back him over such a...
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Antoine Toulme: IRC logging
I love IRC. I dig IRC. IRC beats Facebook and is still a solid competitor to Twitter. I am using IRC aggressively to coordinate our team in 3 different geographies. We even use IRC in the same office...
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Matthias Wessendorf: Enterprise Java without EJBs (but with CDI and MyFaces...
At the W-JAX 2010 Peter Rossbach (Apache Tomcat Committer and freelancer) and I spoke about JavaEE 6 and particular the new ‘lightweight’ possibilities that are available with the WebProfile from...
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