Howto and other interesting information on computers systems and programming.
Nov 30
Well, it’s Black Friday 2013 and I managed to only spend a little. But what I got was so cool, i had to write about it… I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, more that I would like to admit. My job basically ensures I am in front of a computer …
Nov 24
As I sit here in Starbucks, waiting for my 1MB file to download, i thought I would write this small blurb on how the AT&T / Starbucks union has failed. It seems that AT&T has turned down the dial on the throughput that is allowed on its wireless networking. I have experienced this on at …
Oct 02
Step 1: get jstatd running. If jstatd is not running, create a file called jstatd.all.policy with the following contents: grant codebase “file:${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar” { permission java.security.AllPermission;}; Start jstatd as follows: nohup jstatd -J-Djava.security.policy=/path/to/your/jstatd.all.policy & Step 2: Start Remote jvisualvm /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/jvisualvm
May 01
Create Startup scripts for Weblogic Admin server and NodeManager The following instructions are for creating Linux Startup scripts for Weblogic 10.x This procedure uses RC scripts for starting / shutting down the process as a UNIX daemon. Login to a root account Create the following file in the /etc/init.d/weblogic_start with the following contents. …
Mar 06
Ever try to get around those pesky firewalls at work? Well here is a way to setup permanent SSH tunnels that will self heal! The main reason I set this up was so that I wouldn’t have to keep setting up firewall holes in my remote routers. All of my systems now phone home and …