Jan 04
jonclips
historyInfo gives better report information than the versionInfo, providing dates that patches were installed, etc. Handy tip.
Example:
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IBM WebSphere Application Server History Report
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Report at date and time: 2004-12-26 01:47:19-0500
Installation
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Product Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer
Version Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version
DTD Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/dtd
Log Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/update
Backup Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/update/backup
TMP Directory: /tmp
History Directory /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/history
History File /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/event.history
Installation Event
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Maintenance Package ID: was60_fp1_linux
Action: install
Package Filename: was60_fp1_linux.pak
Log File Name:
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/update/was60_fp1_linux.install/updatelog.txt
Backup File Name:
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/backup/was60_fp1_linux.pak
Timestamp: 2004-12-14 06:15:14-0500
Result: success
Component Installation Event
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maintenance Package ID: was60_fp1_linux
Component Name: activity
Action: install
Update Action: replace
Timestamp: 2004-12-14 06:15:14-0500
Result: success
WAS Infocenter Link.
Dec 24
jonarticles
From me (“the wishor”) to you (“the wishee”):
Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I wish you a financially successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but with due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that:-
This greeting is subject to further clarification or withdrawal.
This greeting is freely transferable provided that no alteration shall be made to the original greeting and that the proprietary rights of the wishor are acknowledged.
This greeting implies no promise by the wishor to actually implement any of the wishes.
This greeting may not be enforceable in certain jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be binding upon certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wishor.
This greeting is warranted to perform as reasonably may be expected within the usual application of good tidings, for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first.
The wishor warrants this greeting only for the limited replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wishor.
Any references in this greeting to “the Lord”, “Father Christmas”, “Our Saviour”, “Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” or any other festive figures, whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply any endorsement by or from them in respect of this greeting, and all proprietary rights in any referenced third party names and images are hereby acknowledged.
(original author unknown)
Mar 01
jonclips
Think hard disk storage is expensive now? Check out this ad from the 80’s.
Mar 01
jonclips
So, say you bought the iPhone 3G sometime in the last year and a new one comes out this June or July, technically you should not be eligible for the subsidy price. What does AT&T do about this? They introduce their new “Phone Trade-In” program of course. This may be one way AT&T will try to calm the angry hordes of people who feel they are owed the lower price. Keep in mind this is not without strings attached.
via The iPhone Blog.
Mar 01
jonclips
Woopra apparently lets you view live traffic to your site. Looks pretty nifty, I think I’m gonna try it out.
Woopra – Website Tracking and Analytics.
Mar 01
jonuncategorized
I can’t say enough about how impressed I am with the WPTouch WordPress Plugin. It runs on this blog, and my photoblog and makes reading posts on an iPhone or iPod Touch so seamless. TJ installed it on his blog today too. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPod Touch, check it out.
Jan 08
jonclips
The stakes could not be higher for a 16-year-old company that boomed in the 1990s thanks to its Palm Pilot personal digital assistant and then boomed again by morphing the Pilot into a smartphone called the Palm Treo. At one time these gizmos were the cutting edge of cool; today, they seem like relics from some dark, distant age, eclipsed by the Research in MotionBlackBerry and the iPhone.
I’ll keep my iPhone, but it certainly looks cooler than my old Treo 650.
via Link.
Jan 01
jonarticles
From Twitter, thought I would share it here as well:
Jan 01
jonclips
It looks like the tips discussed in this article might be what I need to be able to combine the photoblog, clip blog and actual blog posts all into one WordPress instance. Another winter project.
Link.
Update: I’m trying to work on this a bit, so the site might be screwey. If so, check back later :)
Jan 01
jonclips
Useless Ninjas has a guide up on how to build a Hackintosh out of an Atom processer driven MSI Wind PC. Looks pretty cool, might make a fun winter project.
Link.
Dec 31
jonclips
Tonight I was able to fire up for the first time the receive portion of my HPSDR, a GNU-type open source software defined HF radio. I was able to hear WWV on 15Mhz, and some folks on the 20m maritime net on 14.300. Pretty cool!
I ordered a Penelope exciter board too, but TAPR shipped me an Ozy by mistake — I didn’t realize it until I opened the box today. Hopefully they’ll find me one.
Some more pics (iPhone, not great quaility) of the fun after the jump…
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Dec 31
jonclips
I just got a new toy today at Costco.. a 24″ Samsung widescreen LCD monitor. This is by far the largest monitor I’ve ever had at home, and my goodness is it crazy awesome!
Link (newegg)
Dec 23
jonclips
My days are like eBay shipments: a few tangible things and a whole lot of packing peanuts. I obviously need help being the boss of me. So I decided to try an experiment: I'd spend two weeks absorbing, in succession, three well-known productivity systems and see if I could find one that worked for those of us who count income in 1099s instead of W-2s. I already owned David Allen's Getting Things Done; Gina Trapani, editor of the blog Lifehacker, further recommended Julie Morgenstern's Never Check E-Mail in the Morning and Timothy Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek. That made three, and three examples is all you need for a magazine article.
via Link.
Dec 22
jonclips
Duplicate-free TV show RSS feeds.. cool.
What if you could automatically download the latest episode of your favorite TV-show? You can use any of our TV-show RSS Feeds, and add them to your favorite BitTorrent program. These RSS feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle.
via Link.
Dec 22
jonclips
A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers. Unlike existing package managers, Nix allows different versions of software to live side by side, and permits sane rollbacks of software upgrades. Nix is a useful system administration tool for heterogeneous environments and developers who write software supported on different libraries, compilers, or interpreters.
via Linux.com :: Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions.
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25 days of sysadmin tips and tricks.. pretty cool.
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