I am in the Guinness book of records.
And so are 8 million other people!! :). Here’s a picture of the official certificate from Firefox showing that I was part of the world record for the most downloaded software in a 24 hour period.
Week 7 training..
Chart of my week7 training for the marathon. I did better with mid week runs and also improved on my speed. I ran with the 11 min/mile pace group and was feeling really good after the weekend 12 mile run. Think, it is time to move up to 10:30 :)..
Get it while you can..
Thomas Friedman, author of “The world is Flat“, is giving away an audio version of the book until August 4th for free!!
You can register for the giveaway here (http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/giveaway)
or you can go to this link and download the MP3 directly (http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/pop/giveaway/)
The world is flat, an international best seller, describes the authors notion of how we he sees the world becoming a level playing field due to 10 “flatteners”. Regardless of which field you are in, I would highly recommend reading this book, to understand the new world we live in now..
HOW TO : Configure JBoss to follow symbolic links
Jboss, in addition to being an application server also serves static content. We recently ran into an issue where some static content was not displayed when users hit the link. The JBoss server kept spewing 404 errors, stating that the content was not found. On some hair pulling research, we figured out that JBoss, like Apache, does not follow/allow content mapped to a symbolic link.
So for example in your web app, you added a sym link to another directory, where most of your content is stored, Jboss would not show the content, when you go to the link.
Here’s a quick guide to fix this.
- Go to the deploy folder of the context you want to configure. For example, if you used the default context, you go to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jboss-web.deployer
- Edit the context.xml file and add allowLinking=”true” in the Context (NOTE : This allows Jboss to publish symbolic links on all apps in your application server, if you want to restrict it to just one particular app, you have to edit the context.xml in your specific application folder). Upon adding the option, our context.xml file looked as such
org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.RunAsListener
More information on options for the context.xml can be found here
http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossweb/freezone/docs/2.1.0/config/context.html
For the record, Jboss configuration and accompanying documentation is what I call black magic :).. Too many options, too many ways to do the same thing.
$1550 more to go!!
I raised $250 out of the $1800 I pledged for Asha, without sending a single e-mail or making a single phone call!! By just adding a signature in my e-mail with the link to my 2008 marathon training.
Thx Sis, Hafsa and Sudheer anna.. Thx for supporting the cause of educating poor kids guys.
HOW TO : Disable annoying message in e-mail by AVG anti-virus
If you are using the free version of AVG Anti-virus by AVG Technologies (Formerly GRISoft), you might have noticed an annoying message that the software inserts in all the e-mails it checks.. The message looks like this
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG – http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.4/1567 – Release Date: 7/22/2008 4:05 PM
I really appreciate the free service that AVG provides for home users, but I don’t want to be reminded or advertise to the world regd the anti-virus I use in every e-mail.
You can disable this message by doing the following in AVG 8.0
- Open the AVG control panel
- Click on Tools -> Advanced Settings in the file menu
- Highlight the “E-mail Scanner” selection in the left hand pane and uncheck the “Certify e-mail” option for both the incoming and outgoing e-mail. Here’s a screen shot.
Did you know?
That the word “verbage” does not exist? People (and I used to) usually use it describe wording. Live and learn :). Moving forward, I have to use the word, wording instead of verbage :). Here’s a link from Mr. Paul Brians of Washington State University regd. common errors in English.
Week 6 training and improved charts with Google Charts
Week 6 of the Chicago marathon training and I was again not able to keep up with my mid week runs. Although I did manage to improve the charts displaying the training program :).. I added a new column to compare my actual milege to the recommended milege.
Here are the parameters I used
cht=bvg
chs=400×250
chtt=week+6+Training
chdl=Recommended+Miles|Actual+Miles
chco=ff0000,00ff00
chxt=x,y
chxr=1,0,15
chxl=0:|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun|
chd=t:0,3,4,3,0,7,0|0,2,0,3,0,0,7
chbh=10
Seen on a bumper sticker
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber