Most Open Source software projects invite persons using their product to experience the joys of compiling the product. Subversion does not. from INSTALL in the 1.5.6 subversion source code: This document… Read More
“java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” First the application was acting really slow and sluggish, then stopped responding – in looking at the log we saw “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” as soon as the application was… Read More
This was one of the search terms that found an article here… I hadn’t addressed this directly, but I use Nagios to monitor my company’s server environment, and specifically implemented that monitoring… Read More
The world goes crazy because the money stops flowing. Why? George Dyson wrote an essay on current finances in the world. In that essay, he recounts the history of “tallies”, sticks of… Read More
console2 with cygwin bash shell and ssh behind it (and a lot of other UNIX commands too, like ls, and find and grep and awk and gpg…) has turned out to be… Read More
I have photographs my grandmother had taken at a photo studio in San Francisco in 1927. I have other photographs of her dancing with a straw hat through fields in Italy taken… Read More
…sort of. My ISP fixed the DNS flaw. In doing so, they managed to stop caching ANY DNS results and slowed every action from within my local network to a crawl. This lasted… Read More