http://number9.hellooperator.net a bird to bring my message home Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:20:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally!     ZFS root has been in Indiana (aka OpenSolaris 2008.05) for a while, but I prefer Solaris Express. As of build 90, it’s supported by the installer. I installed it on my crappy P4 test box : 1Gb Ram, twin 40Gb disks. Burn the DVD ISO and boot it if you want to play ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/06/06/solaris-express-zfs-root-install I’ve been using a bit of Java lately, and the OSX 1.6 JVM seemed pretty stable. JRuby is the next thing on my geek list, and that runs best on Java 6. Although the 1.6 JDK was installed in the last system update, it's not the default:   hypnotoad:Desktop $ /usr/bin/java -version java version "1.5.0_13" Java(TM) ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/05/21/changing-the-default-jvm-on-osx-leopard I did Roller 3 on Glassfish 2 a while back so thought that’d be the simplest thing to put on Glassfish3. The process has got quite a bit easier. get roller curl -O http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/roller/roller-4/v4.0.0/bin/apache-roller-4.0.zip unzip apache-roller-4.0.zip setup an empty database Roller4 isn’t perfect, but it kicks ass when it comes to auto-generating its own database tables. It ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/05/20/roller-4-on-glassfish-v3 One downside to embedding your database server is that Glassfish needs more memory. I'd been messing around with a few webapps and yesterday got Roller4 running. After a few clicks around the app, I started to see 'PermGen space: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError' errors.    More power, Doctor The fix is pretty obvious : have the JVM allocate more PermGen ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/05/20/passing-jvm-options-to-glassfish Glassfish v3 ships with JavaDB (aka Apache Derby aka Cloudscape). I’ll be using this for trying out Rails and JRuby, but it’s also handy for things like authentication via JDBC Realms. A JavaDB database is essentially a directory that only one process can access at a time. This can be Glassfish itself (an ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/05/15/javadb-and-glassfish-v3-to-embed-or-not-to-embed Fishes eyes I’ve been following Glassfish with interest for a while now – I want a Tomcat replacement: webapps, a connection pool and an admin interface that doesn’t stink. Not much to ask. Glassfish2 delivers all that in spades, plus clusters very nicely. But it also has a lot of J(2)EE features that I’m not really ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/05/13/gf3-first-look In case you were wondering, today is CSS Naked Day.  Wordpress holds up pretty well. By an amazing coincidence, I saw a fat monkey today. And he looked just like you. http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/04/09/get-nekkid This mornings WebKit nightly build rendering the Acid3 test:   And look! Firefox painted me a beautiful picture too:   That's lovely, sweetheart. Guess who's not regretting switching a couple of months back.To be fair, Opera apparently scores very highly too (both its users must be delighted).  http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/03/27/this-site-best-viewed-in Unless you live under the sea, you know a few ways to run windows apps on a Mac. Obviously, the only 'windows apps' worth having are games, which means DirectX support. Options include:BootCamp is pretty fast, but rebooting into windows is no way to spend your time.Parallels somehow trashed my BootCamp ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/03/10/portal-on-osx-under-crossover Happy New Thing.   So anyway, Adam Leventhal found out AAPL hamstrung DTrace w.r.t. certain apps on Leopard (iTunes at least).  Cue inevitable Slashdottian outrage. When source code gets released under a license everyone (so long as they follow those terms) gets to port, extend, or shout about how your license isn't free at all really. They ... http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/01/21/why-i-hate-your-freedom