Simple how to for installing Wireshark, open source network capture/analysis tool on default install of Fedora 9.
Enjoy :)..
George Carlin, probably one of the most intelligent comedians around, passed away on Sunday due to a heart attack. If you don’t know who he is, check out his page on WikiPedia and his website.
In addition to being a great comedian, George had a “thing” for languages.. Here is a snippet from his website
Some favorite oxymorons:
Some favorite redundancies:
RIP George..You will be missed.
I downloaded multiple instances of Firefox 3.0 to support Mozilla’s attempt to set a world record for the most number of downloads in a day!!. Their servers had some problems dealing with the flood of download requests but seem to have stabilized now..Help set the record, but downloading a copy of Firefox 3.0. I have only used it for a hour now, but it is faster when I use Gmail. And it has a ton of new features that I haven’t even started playing with…
Have you always wanted to play a part in setting a Guinness World Record? You have the chance now by helping Mozilla Firefox in their attempt to become the most downloaded software in a day. Head over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ and help create the world record!!
The official meaning of a literate person per UNESCO is
A literate person is one who can with understanding both read and write a short simple statement relevant to his everyday life.
Such a simple sentence, but think what it means to be an illiterate person and how much impact an illiterate person has on the progress (or lack of progress) of a country and the world in general.
Here are some stats about the literacy rates in India
As you know, I am running this years Chicago Marathon with a mission. I am raising money for the Asha Foundation, a non-profit helping to educate the underprivileged in India. Please take a moment to donate some money to the cause by clicking on the button below.
I have decided to run the Chicago Marathon again this year. But this time, I am running it for a cause. I am raising money for the ASHA foundation, a non profit entity helping to educate the poor and needy in India. As part of the fundraising process, I wanted to share my training information with the folks that are donating for this cause and hence the need for this post.
I was looking into creating a dynamic page in wordpress (the software that powers this blog) that would list all the posts related to my training for the marathon. Google came to the rescue as usual and pointed me to the “InLine Posts” plugin by Aral Balkan.
You can do create a dynamic page by
1) Download the “InLine Posts” plugin from here : http://aralbalkan.com/wordpress
2) Unzip the file and upload the contents to the plugins folder in your wordpress install. It is located in the wp-content folder.
3) Activate the plugin by logging into the admin interface of your wordpress install.
4) Create a new page and add the number of the post you want displayed in the page by listing the post ID in the following format : [[POST_ID]]
I discovered IBM Page Detailer, a tool to analyze web traffic between a client and a server in a graphical format, while listening to the brilliant Steve Sounder’s lecture on “Even Faster Web Sites” from the Google I/O 2008 conference. And credit goes to Ray for posting the list of videos from the Google I/O conference.
Am still playing around with this tool, but it looks like there is a lot of potential here. Rather than acting as a proxy, like most of the HTTP analyzers do, this tool actually places a probe in the clients network stack. And not to mention that it is free to use :).
We recently launched a new product at work and had to optimize a Java web application hosted in a JBoss application server for performance. The following tools came in rather handy to troubleshoot and analyze the application.
<context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml,classpath:applicationContext*.xml</param-value> </context-param> <filter> <!-- MessAdmin Servlet Filter --> <filter-name>MessAdminFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>clime.messadmin.filter.MessAdminFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>MessAdminFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <listener> <!-- MessAdmin listener --> <listener-class>clime.messadmin.core.MessAdminListener</listener-class> </listener>
I recently came across a corrupted table in MySQL and was getting the following error, when I was trying to access a table.
“mysql ERROR 145 (HY000): Table ‘xxxxxxx’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired”
I repaired the table by
Love the simplicity of MySQL :).
