I found this little gotcha in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 for Windows. I don’t know if it’s documented, but it’s certainly something to be aware of, as I don’t believe the behaviour is what most users might expect.
Normally if you start WAS from a console window using the startServer.bat script, WebSphere will set its …
These are some of the best band names I have come across. You have probably only heard of a handful and some are already defunct.
British Sea Power - This band named themselves after something that peaked right around 1750, the same time as the development of the steam locomotive and a hundred years earlier than …
Unnecessary much?
UPDATE: So it turns out I was wrong about this one. It’s Vista asking me if I want to be prompted in the future, not Scrapboy. Fortunately I’m wrong often, so I don’t feel bad in this case.
I’m taking a break from my long standing informal policy of not posting recipes on my blog and posting a recipe. I made this one up tonight after having curry for lunch and craving more. This came out very nicely.
Ingredients:
2 small potatoes
1 medium onion
3 cloves garlic
1 cubic inch ginger, grated
2 celery stalks
2 tbsp olive oil
1 …
Recently, for a project at work I needed a 64-bit Windows version of Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. I didn’t want to use a binary built by a third party, so I chose to build it from the latest sources myself, mainly for reproducibility. Also, I don’t know if a 64-bit Windows binary of PCRE even …
I have been intending to submit something to the provincial Arts & Letters competition for a long time but so far I have not done it. That’s going to change this year.
Over Christmas I wrote a short story which I intend to submit to the competition in the short fiction category (under 5,000 words). At …