Malachi's Server

Multiple Accounts/SSH keys on BitBucket

2012-08-14T19:21:00.000-07:00

Theoretically, I can add my SSH key to any server I have access to. With BitBucket, that's not always true. BitBucket does not allow the same key to be used for two different accounts. Security measure, I'm sure. It does make it difficult to access my company account and my personal account from the same machine. The workaround is to do the initial download via https, then change the

Canon PIXMA MX860 and Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-17T10:09:00.000-08:00

When I upgraded the laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, the Canon inkjet quit working. I tried reinstalling the drivers, but it refused (even with --force-architecture). I tried (for a few hours) building the drivers, but it was just one thing after another. Eventually, I found this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canonsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mx860seriessudo apt-get

Share your git hooks

2011-08-25T13:41:00.000-07:00

At work, we are using git for one of our projects. One of the problems we encountered is that people (including myself) regularly forget to put the branch name in their commit message. Why is that a big deal? Once merged back to master, you see a lot of comments that show no indication of what they were for (for example 'added .gitignore'). I'd like to simplify things so that no one has to

Native ZFS for Linux

2011-08-13T09:24:00.000-07:00

I miss OpenSolaris. At work, the only options are Windows and Linux. The other day, I was rm -rf'ing about 10 different copies of the Android tree and it reminded me how much quicker it was to wipe out a zfs filesystem than it was to rm -rf one "little" directory. After many hours of waiting for access to my system, I decided to check on the state of ZFS on Linux again. Last year, I had

Open Indiana

2011-03-22T07:58:00.000-07:00

Saw this... maybe I'll do this to the home server.

In case anyone missed it... departures from Oracle...

2010-10-27T07:58:00.000-07:00

I think this quote says it all: Doug Lea resigns from the JCP “I believe that the JCP is no longer a credible specification and standards body, and there is no remaining useful role for an independent advocate for the academic and research community on the EC.”There are quite a few more as well.

Update! Technology: Forecast -- increased chance of cloud...computing

2010-10-08T10:18:00.000-07:00

I was recently interviewed by Justin Lacche, Managing Editor of Update! regarding cloud computing. Go have a gander :)

Oracle kills OpenSolaris

2010-08-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

I just have to wonder. When Oracle is dead feasting on the dead Sun like a zombie; will there be anything left? Do we even care anymore or do we move onto Life-After-Oracle by choosing a new OS platform, a new programming language, a new filesystem etc etc etc?

zfs-fuse

2010-07-20T10:29:00.000-07:00

I have recently been looking at using some low-power hardware that has Debian installed (and does not support OpenSolaris). Combined with Oracle's demantling of Sun, I decided to test zfs-fuse. These instructions are in no way supposed to indicate the correct or easiest way -- simply the way I managed to get it installed and tested. download the Debian Lenny installer create a new VirtualBox

Slashdot: OpenSolaris Governing Board Closing Shop?

2010-07-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 14, @11:27AM from the so-it-comes-to-this dept. opensource echolinux writes "Frustrated by Oracle's refusal to interact with the OpenSolaris community

Galatea - A Maven/Android Archetype

2010-04-18T20:06:00.000-07:00

After my experience writing an archetype for Red Dwarf; I decided to do the same thing for Android. This archetype is based on the maven-android-plugin. I'd like to thank Hugo for helping me get the configuration correct. So let's get started. As before... F:\work>mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://kallisti.eoti.org:8081/content/repositories/snapshots/archetype-catalog.xml [INFO

Et tu Java?

2010-04-12T08:24:00.000-07:00

We all know that Sun employees are dropping like flies (either by quitting or being laid off with their entire teams)... It seems that shortly after finding out that Kohsuke quit, we find out that James Gosling has quit as well. Does anyone NOT fear the future of Java under Oracle's "leadership"?

Project Darkstar, Red Dwarf, Kryten

2010-04-12T00:59:00.000-07:00

As you are probably aware, Project Darkstar is no more. Owen and others have moved it over into a new project called Red Dwarf. One of the things I noticed was that they have a maven plugin to ease quick development cycles. I decided to spend some time this weekend getting associated with the plugin and the new project. I started off by redoing the original tutorial exercises from the

Kohsuke leaves Sun

2010-04-08T06:20:00.000-07:00

Kohsuke is leaving Sun to start his own business. Good luck Kohsuke. I'm glad you are doing your own thing rather than being cannon fodder for Oracle.

Hudson reset on upgrade

2010-04-04T21:56:00.000-07:00

I realized today that Hudson was about 15 versions out of date. I did the upgrade (pfexec pkg install hudson). On restart, Hudson now had a blank configuration. Don't worry - your data isn't gone. My manifest file had been modified and reimported; so now the various paths were incorrect for my system. Fixing and reimporting (pfexec svccfg import hudson.xml) was enough to get it working again.

Package Renaming

2010-03-24T10:08:00.000-07:00

I was looking at the "What's new for OpenSolaris 2010.03" and noticed the comment about "Renamed Packages"... Things like 'SUNWgtar' were renamed to 'archiver/gnu-tar'. So if you are having trouble finding your package; make sure to check out the list for the new name.

cfgadm

2010-02-19T21:51:00.000-08:00

So I woke up the other day and the server was making a LOT of noise. My first thought was that it was a fan going out [still think it is actually], so I tried 'fmadm faulty'. I was hoping to see something telling me which of the 8 fans were dying. Instead, I see that I was in the midst of a zpool failure. Checking 'zpool status' I was able to verify that one of the disks had died. I'm running

GXT: BorderLayout inside TabPanel

2010-02-09T09:50:00.000-08:00

I had originally posted a bug in the GXT premium forum about BorderLayout not working inside a TabPanel. To prove the point, I took the demo code directly from the site and put it verbatim inside a tab. Since the post never showed up in the forum, I can't answer it myself so others know how to fix the problem... so it'll go here. The BorderLayout code does the following: Size size =

Oracle Kills Off Project Darkstar

2010-02-05T23:54:00.001-08:00

Well, as we all expected, Oracle is not taking any time in ruining the Java platform. The latest on the chopping block? Project Darkstar. There goes at least 3 projects I had planned.

Zones getting out of sync

2010-01-04T20:43:00.000-08:00

The other day, I started an update and walked away. I noticed today it was done, so I zfs snapshotted the zones and xvm sessions then rebooted. Upon bootup, everything seemed OK until I tried to access the web pages on one of the zones. Checking svcs -xv, I saw that the local filesystem was down! That's not good! While troubleshooting, it occurred to me that the global is reporting snv_130 and

Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA), Oracle Corp. (ORCL)

2009-12-30T11:30:00.000-08:00

Premium offered: $0.14 or 1.50% Acquirer: ORCL Target: JAVA Offer per share: $9.50 cash (too bad I paid $12.25/share) Value of outstanding common equity: $7,074,650,000 Target share price: $9.36 Acquirer share price: $25.00 Expected closing: N/A Annualized gain: N/A Note: The U.S. Justice Department cleared the way for Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems about a month after Sun's

JForum on OpenSolaris

2009-10-23T21:47:00.000-07:00

I decided to go ahead and setup a forum for one of the projects I am working on. I already had a zone setup that was hosting a "coming soon" page. Looking around, I spent quite awhile trying to decide which forum software I was going to use. As a Java developer, I decided to go with a Java-based one so that it is easier for me to maintain. I ended up choosing JForum. Installation was

Gnome-terminal just disappears after upgrading to snv_125

2009-10-22T10:24:00.000-07:00

After upgrading today, I was unable to launch the terminal. Let me correct that -- the window would come up, but before any text was displayed it would close. I didn't see any error messages or logs or anything that indicated what the problem was. Then I found bug #6892167. To verify if that was my problem, I went up to "Applications | Run Application" and did 'gnome-terminal -e /bin/bash'.

Private Repositories with Nexus

2009-08-27T21:37:00.000-07:00

So one of the projects I am working on is not open source (I know, I know)... that led me to realize I needed to provide both private AND anonymous access to my repositories -- depending on which repo. A bit of googling and I came across this page. I mostly followed his instructions -- but here are a few sidenotes in case you go to try it. In step #2, be careful about long names. When I got

Subversion working in Unix but not on Windows

2009-08-22T08:52:00.000-07:00

So as I was checking out my ambrosia project on Windows today and got this error: A ambrosia\thoth\src\test\java\org\eoti\math\cf\constants\phiTest.java A ambrosia\thoth\src\test\java\org\eoti\math\cf\constants\PhiTest.java A ambrosia\thoth\src\test\java\org\eoti\math\cf\constants\tanTest.java A ambrosia\thoth\src\test\java\org\eoti\math\cf\constants\A052119Test.java A ambrosia\