Jul2nd2009
Published by richard July 2nd, 2009
in FOSS/GNU/Linux.
Well I have to install tomcat again for a client. I ran a bunch of massive tomcat farms for a client before and for the life of me I can’t find my self made documentation. The thing is, tomcat an java can be installed about, well, 10 billion different ways. And they all have problems and benefits with respect to support, upgrading and linking with other systems like apache.
Well my recipe was good. I just have to find it again. While no one forgets to ride a bike – my brain can’t keep all the tech stuff that is life as an IT pro current and in the level one cache of my cerebral cortex always. I need to push stuff out to swap now and then.
But to close up this lame virtual memory metaphor for my brain….. I have a serious page fault right now. 
Published by richard June 29th, 2009
in Tech Horizon.
I finally upgraded to 2.8 from 2.2. I have new sitemap generators in, my various social networks plugged in, my syndication (almost) fixed again now that feedburner is no longer blocked in China. Most of my widgets, jeromes keywords tags and the like came over OK. Just need to work on the fonts and colours and add in a few more front page and back end stuff. And I will be with the times.
Also put in the new header that I made along with the old one 3 years ago – but never used. Good spring clean!
May11th2009
Published by richard May 11th, 2009
in Uncategorized.
I was talking with the other expat tech in the office today and thought to myself, “Who is the domain registrar for google?” Thinking to myself it is probably network solutions (the ONLY place BTW to register .cn domain names if you want even a modicum of control over them).
Well I fired up a new tab in my always open terminal and hilarity ensued. I could not work it out. I thought at first that maybe this text response that I got was to stop the registrar being hassled with google problems.
No.
Turns out that the OSX whois command likes to do a bit of regular expression matching on my behalf.
Try it yourself….
Terminal > Whois google.com > Enter > Laugh
While no way near as cool or professional as my stint in CNN a couple of years back. It is still cool though;
http://drupal.org/node/357715
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