Archive for November 13th, 2003

Scanner on The Fridge

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

Naomi wants to know what temperature the fridge is so I’ve rigged up some KPB wire from the fridge to the scanner on the water heater.  I’ll have to take off the J type thermocouples and switch them with KPB wire before switching the scanner over to type K.  It’s a Contronautics CN606.  The manual is here: http://www.contronautics.com/Manuals/CN606.pdf  I could do it in Java, but for tonight I guess I’ll just use the front panel to reconfigure it.

Squirrelmail Is Nobody

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

From time to time I can’t get to my squirrelmail prefs file.  The owner changes to apache for some reason.  I do chmod -R nobody.nobody on the data directory and all returns to normal.  I’ll watch for a pattern.

Solution

w.bloggar

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

This is a test of w.bloggar 3.02 posting to roller on my site. It’s neat but I was hoping for something which would integrate the upload file and insert image functions into one process.

Blog Extracted

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

http://new.blogger.com/home.pyra was a great way to get started with web logging.  Roller’s installed and working here so I copied the content over (by hand one entry at a time preserving dates) and now it’s all here in the Stuff category.

JNDI Caching

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

Here’s a page from theinfocenter on how to set up JNDI caching for WebSphere 5: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/rnam_example_behavior.html


I’m not convinced about the wisdom of this: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ejb0924.html but there are several patterns which advocate caching of JNDI.  This would seem to be a pattern for container vendors not developers.