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Adding custom Class-Path entries to a Netbeans Java Application Project
I want to jot this down before I forget. I was working in a Netbeans Java Application project, but I wanted to augment the Class-Path of the MANIFEST.MF in the Jar file to include an additional...
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Quickie to show IP Addresses on console login
Here’s a simple script to put into /etc/rc3.d/ to add the IP addresses to the /etc/issue file so that they appear on the console login screen. Handy for environments like Virtual Box or VMWare, to...
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Of Tomcat, OutOfMemory Errors & Continuous Development
So you are working in your favorite IDE on some sort of web application or web service, and you are continuously deploying to Tomcat but ocassionally the deployment fails, you see the CPU of the JVM...
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Mobile Media Server with a Raspberry Pi
Update: 8.Nov.2013 – Tweaked WiFi config to improve network performance. This thanksgiving we are planning to drive, for once, to our destination in Southern California. In anticipation of the kids...
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Distributed Testing with JMeter on EC2
Here’s a little quickie. I wanted to do some distributed testing with JMeter utilizing EC2 instances as slaves, while running the master/UI locally on my laptop. There are several challenges around...
View ArticleHeadless Ubuntu 18.04 with VNC Access
Ok, real quick before I forget how I did it. What I wanted to do was to run Ubuntu 18.04 without a monitor and be able to access it via VNC. Here’s the steps: Install Ubuntu 18.04. I made sure the...
View ArticleNotes on my Media Server
I recently rebuilt my media server. Previously it was based on an old ReadyNAS NV+ and Mac Mini. These both have outlasted their lifetimes, they are slow, noisy and large. So I recently rebuilt the...
View ArticleQuest for a multi-platform SSH Config
Since working at home during the pandemic, I had decided to give developing on Windows 10 another shot. Although its a bit more painful to configure a working environment that I’m used to with any...
View ArticleEmacs Tramp on Windows 10
Hot off the heals of figuring out how to configure SSH with Windows 10, I finally figured out how to now use the Windows OpenSSH Client with Emacs Tramp, so I can use the ssh mode rather than plink....
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Building Hadoop, Spark & Jupyter on macOS
So, my goal is simply this, run a Jupyter notebook with a pyspark kernel on macOS Monterey (on Apple Silicon) and read in/process Zstandard compressed JSON files (in Spark) Now, Spark doesn’t...
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