Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Seattle Motorcycle Show
Yesterday I went to the Seattle Motorcycle Show with Russell, Gordon (and his offspring), and Christian. They had a lot of bikes, and some cool stuff, although overall I was a little let down. There are some pictures here: https://www.digitalsanctuary.com/gallery/v/DailyPictures/?g2_page=7 It was fun though to checkout all the bikes and random gear. It snowed on…
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Don’t like people leeching your wireless?
Don’t just block them, get a little more creative…. http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html Enjoy:)
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How to identify the process listening on a port
This is mostly for own use, but: If you’ve ever had a server which netstat showed was listening on one or more ports you weren’t expecting, you can use this command to find out which process is listening there: fuser -vn tcp 4444 Which in this case happens to be owned by JBoss, and not…
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Snakes in the desert
I spent most of last week in Las Vegas on a vacation/late-anniversary-trip. It was wonderful. I hadn’t had a real vacation in over a year so it was long overdue. Somehow we managed to get upgraded to First Class on the flights there and back. We stayed at our favorite Vegas hotel, THEhotel at Mandalay…
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Update on 10 Minute Mail problems
As you know if you’ve been following my blog, 10MinuteMail starting dying with OutOfMemory errors seemly randomly. Sometimes it would happen after 2 days of uptime, sometimes after a week. I ran load tests and profilers but could not reproduce the issue. On the upside I can say that the 10 Minute Mail application can…
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10MinuteMail upgraded again
Moved up to Seam 2.0 CR3, and JBoss 4.2.2. I also optimized some code, got rid of some useless error logging, etc… Hopefully it will perform a little better:) So far it seems to process incoming e-mail much faster, which was a bottleneck under load. Enjoy!
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