Author Archives: jason
nautilus-clamscan fix in maverick meerkat
Greetings my fellow Linux users! Today I found the need to perform a virus scan on a questionable image sent to me. I noticed there was a package in the repo called nautilus-clamscan which *should* have installed a new item … Continue reading
WTF Dell?
I received this beauty of an email this morning from Dell: Dear Customer, We’re sorry but your order will take longer to fulfill than previously communicated and is now scheduled to be delivered on or before XX/YY/ZZZZ Because we did … Continue reading
Battlefield Bad Company 2 – Best. Game. Evarrr.
Want to put the hurt on enemy infantry? Choose the assault class and dispatch them with your assault rifle and attached grenade launcher… but you better take out their medic first or you’ll curse yourself later. Want to demoralize the … Continue reading
telnet http proxy
I needed to access a website from behind an authenticated HTTP proxy via an automated script and I didn’t know the protocol. I managed to capture some packets from a lynx session which is set up to utilize the gateway … Continue reading
websphere scripting with wsadmin
Well, I’ve finally had enough work to necessitate learning about websphere application server scripting via wsadmin and jython. Since this topic seems a bit scarce on the web I’ll try to post the cool stuff I learn here.
WebSphere Error – Cannot get canonical host name for server
Wow… what a pain! I am helping a coworker set up a WAS solution on solaris. I installed the deployment manager (which is very similar to an application server installation… it uses the same installer in fact.) The installation went … Continue reading
Phase III
Today I had a remarkable conversation with a person I admire very much. He is a colleague of mine and is very close to retiring from a successful career in IT and science in general. He told me he is … Continue reading
debian hp dl380 cdrom errors
kernel: [16610.569459] hda: drive not ready for command kernel: [16610.569505] hda: status error: status=0×48 { DriveReady DataRequest } kernel: [16610.569511] ide: failed opcode was: unknown The above error messages were omnipresent in my HP DL380 running Debian Lenny. /dev/hda is … Continue reading
VMWare Perl API and Debian
I recently attempted to install VMWare’s Perl API on Debian Lenny and received the following error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl A quick dpkg -l revealed I had openssl installed. It turns out I needed to also install libssl-dev in order … Continue reading
It is what it is
Really? It is what it is? How is that helpful? I think this utterance attempts to refocus the conversation but it always prompts my analytical brain to think, and sometimes reply, the syntactic Boolean inverse, “You mean it is not … Continue reading