Red Leopard

I’ve been pensive of late and frankly the weather is just too damn nice for that. Still, there is something gained by wrapping up from time to time in a blanket of introspection. I’m sharing here my pensive playlist.

You’d think in this day and age that modern operating systems, especially OS X, would be set for UTF8 handling by default. Not so. My previous post, centos l10n problem, showed that CentOS defaults to set its locale LANG as POSIX rather than UTF8.
Mac takes the lunacy one step further. Or should I say one [...]

It had always bugged me that I got this warning on my OS X, MacBook Pro development system. (Well, it’s really an INFO, not a WARN but it bugged me nonetheless.)

Apr 8, 2009 4:10:55 PM org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-8009

<!– snip –>

Apr 8, 2009 4:10:58 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint allocatePoller
INFO: Failed to create poller with [...]

I’ve had opportunity to once again visit the UTF8 chain of failure and thought I’d write about it. If for no other reason, it’s easier for me to find my notes when I shove them into a blog entry.
I previously wrote about UTF8 on Tomcat. I pointed out that I needed to add an [...]

I’ve been working quite a bit with the rest plugin for Struts2. The really nice thing about this plugin is the way it cleans up Struts URLs. Makes them more rails-like. I chuckled when depressed programmer suggested that struts2 is “WebWork on drugs.” I hate struts2. I really do.
Anyway, I have stripped down an AccountController [...]

I’ve been putting off building the software RAID10 on marmaduke. Today, I put it off no longer.
The server marmaduke has six storage devices (2 IDE and 4 SATA)

$ ls -1 /dev/hd?
/dev/hde
/dev/hdf

$ ls -1 /dev/sd?
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd

The CDROM is attached as /dev/hde and a 300GB HDD as /dev/hdf on which I’ve installed CentOS 5.2. The four SATA drives [...]