Month: December 2009
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Google Chrome on Linux
I was excited to read today a Google Chrome Beta is now available on Linux. Gmail and Google Reader have weird font issues for me on both Linux and Window Firefox. So I tend split my browser load based on where the sites work best for me. Making the Linux switch meant leaving Chrome behind…
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Disclaimer
At the request of my boss, I added this disclaimer. Positive things I say here about Blackboard are okay. Negative things require distancing my employer from me so the defamation lawsuit comes to me not them. 🙂 This is a personal weblog. The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer.
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Failed Sessions
For exactly two months now I have been working on a re-opened issue (on Oct 7, 2009) where sessions appear to die in Blackboard Vista 8.0.2 hf1. The first time this came up, Blackboard support wanted us to overhaul the session management. BIG-IP documents saying attempting this new method was a horrible idea caused us…
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Last Known Good config.xml
Saw this on Laura Gekeler’s blog: Tip: Keep a ‘last known good’ config.xml file on your admin node. Your Bb Vista cluster config.xml file | laura gekeler Very good tip! We learned this lesson a couple months into hosting Vista 8 in pre-production. She goes on to explain this file gets overwritten any time a…
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Self-Reporting
When I read something like this, I start to question the validity of the method. Psychologist Sam Gosling analyzed the Facebook profiles of 236 college-aged people, who were also asked to fill out personality questionnaires… surveys that were designed to assess not only how study participants viewed themselves in reality, but also what their personalities…
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Linux Adventure Part 3 [SOLVED]
Linux Adventure Part 1 | Linux Adventure Part 2 \ Use these to catch up on the story. After work and much ridicule from a coworker over this Ubuntu mess, I come home to play some more on this wireless mess. I was even somewhat leaning towards giving the firmware cutter stuff a try. After…