historyInfo gives better report information than the versionInfo, providing dates that patches were installed, etc. Handy tip.

Example:

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IBM WebSphere Application Server History Report
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Report at date and time: 2004-12-26 01:47:19-0500

Installation
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Product Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer
Version Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version
DTD Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/dtd
Log Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/update
Backup Directory: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/update/backup
TMP Directory: /tmp
History Directory /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/history
History File /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/event.history

Installation Event
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Maintenance Package ID: was60_fp1_linux
Action: install
Package Filename: was60_fp1_linux.pak
Log File Name:
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/update/was60_fp1_linux.install/updatelog.txt
Backup File Name:
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/backup/was60_fp1_linux.pak
Timestamp: 2004-12-14 06:15:14-0500
Result: success

Component Installation Event
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Maintenance Package ID: was60_fp1_linux
Component Name: activity
Action: install
Update Action: replace
Timestamp: 2004-12-14 06:15:14-0500
Result: success

WAS Infocenter Link.

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via reddit

So, say you bought the iPhone 3G sometime in the last year and a new one comes out this June or July, technically you should not be eligible for the subsidy price. What does AT&T do about this? They introduce their new “Phone Trade-In” program of course. This may be one way AT&T will try to calm the angry hordes of people who feel they are owed the lower price. Keep in mind this is not without strings attached.

via The iPhone Blog.

Woopra – Website Tracking and Analytics.

CPAC Speech: Rush’s First Televised Address to the Nation.

via TJ Powell.

The stakes could not be higher for a 16-year-old company that boomed in the 1990s thanks to its Palm Pilot personal digital assistant and then boomed again by morphing the Pilot into a smartphone called the Palm Treo. At one time these gizmos were the cutting edge of cool; today, they seem like relics from some dark, distant age, eclipsed by the Research in MotionBlackBerry and the iPhone.

I’ll keep my iPhone, but it certainly looks cooler than my old Treo 650.

via Link.

See also: The Perl Advent Calendar.

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Update: I’m trying to work on this a bit, so the site might be screwey. If so, check back later :)

Link.

I ordered a Penelope exciter board too, but TAPR shipped me an Ozy by mistake — I didn’t realize it until I opened the box today. Hopefully they’ll find me one.

Some more pics (iPhone, not great quaility) of the fun after the jump…

Link (newegg)

My days are like eBay shipments: a few tangible things and a whole lot of packing peanuts. I obviously need help being the boss of me. So I decided to try an experiment: I'd spend two weeks absorbing, in succession, three well-known productivity systems and see if I could find one that worked for those of us who count income in 1099s instead of W-2s. I already owned David Allen's Getting Things Done; Gina Trapani, editor of the blog Lifehacker, further recommended Julie Morgenstern's Never Check E-Mail in the Morning and Timothy Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek. That made three, and three examples is all you need for a magazine article.

via Link.

What if you could automatically download the latest episode of your favorite TV-show? You can use any of our TV-show RSS Feeds, and add them to your favorite BitTorrent program. These RSS feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle.

via Link.

via Linux.com :: Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions.

Enigmo for iPhone is the best. game. ever.

Link.

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Update: It’s here.

Since I posted back in 2007 when I got my Blackberry Curve, I guess it’s time to post an update.

Even as I was reading this email, my mind was racing, subconsciously piecing together the implementation details. The Bourne shell, it turns out, is quite well suited for this type of task…much more so, I dare say, than Java or C. The solution turned out to be both simple and elegant.

This document chronicles my foray into the not-so-fascinating world of ${YOUR_LANGUAGE_HERE} Server Pages technology. All of the code I developed is available for free download, so you can use Bourne Shell Server Pages to build your very own killer Web application.

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