11.30.06

Firefox plugins on Mac OS X

Posted in Firefox at 9:26 by djn

After having some problems with Firefox plugins on Mac OS X I stumbled across PluginDoc: MacOS X which quite plainly shows what plugins work in Firefox. /me like.

11.29.06

Finally updated to Firefox 2.0

Posted in Firefox at 13:27 by djn

I updated to Firefox 2.0 today as the Web Developer Toolbar extension finally includes Firefox 2 support. Yay!

On a related note, I’m currently experimenting with plugins for Firefox. Here is a list of my installed plugins:

Also, as a Mac OS X theme, I have installed grApple’s Eos theme.

11.28.06

OS X Tiger 10.4 process limits solution

Posted in Mac at 12:59 by djn

So, my previous posting on process limits was insufficient for OS X 10.4. But luckily, Phillip’s Ponderings: OS X Tiger 10.4 process limits solution presents a nice an clean way to handle this icky-poo situation. Hopefully, it will work now!

11.27.06

Weird stuff: Frets On Fire

Posted in Day-to-Day, Gaming at 19:28 by djn

Heard of Guitar Hero? Want something that doesn’t require a PS2? Try: Frets On Fire.

11.24.06

A solution for Mac OS X process limits

Posted in Mac at 14:45 by djn

I often run into the a very obnoxious error from my Terminal:

-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

A solution to this problem came from this link: macosxhints.com – A solution for Mac OS X process limits, along with an explanation. Very good.

11.17.06

Smash the PS3?

Posted in Day-to-Day at 22:05 by djn

This site is quite fun, some guys thrashing a PS3. There is also a video. They used a sledgehammer! Cwazy!

11.03.06

Google Web Toolkit now with hosted mode on Mac OS X

Posted in Geeky at 15:07 by djn

Just a little heads up! Google Web Toolkit (GWT) now supports hosted mode on Mac OS X. Time to play ;)

Work: Damn those differing implementations of the servlet spec!

Posted in Geeky at 15:06 by djn

At work, we are currently migrating away from the J2EE container Resin to Tomcat, due to us needing load balancing and distributed sessions. Resin does this, but as far as we can tell, only in the Pro edition, which costs $500 pr license (1 year of upgrades, 2 CPUs). We had 2 licenses but they have expired and we are having some difficulty justifiying the price renewing the licenses when we need about 4 licenses for our wanted setup. It seems that tomcat does the load-balancing and distributed sessions for free :)

So we need to deploy and test our web applications on Tomcat. It is not easy because of different behaviours in their implementation of the Servlet specification. Well, at least I’m learning stuff ;)