sshfileuploader: uploading large files over ssh over an unreliable connection

I'm having for the last month a very bad internet connection which makes it almost impossible to upload files anywhere: drive, facebook or WARs to my toy server. Especially the latter one is really annoying as the SSH connection will really abort with an ugly network error. I suspect a misconfiguration in the TCP/IP settings … Continue reading sshfileuploader: uploading large files over ssh over an unreliable connection →

mdadm woes

After migrating a software RAID 5 to Ubuntu LTS 12.04, the system wouldn't come up again after rebooting. I believe Chris Siebenmann to splendidly have analysed [1] the problem: a race condition with udev losing the race. His solution is to: Change /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/mdadm-functionsas follows: degraded_arrays() { + udevadm settle mdadm --misc --scan --detail --test >/dev/null … Continue reading mdadm woes →

Internet Explorer, zooming and resize events

My current project (cat4trad) for the European Parliament, which involves heavily GWT and javascript in bringing a seamless user experience to translators, we frequently run into issues with different browsers. The one I run into today was about a window resize event not being detected by IE8 and IE9. This simple test should always print … Continue reading Internet Explorer, zooming and resize events →

CRTL+Space not working in Ubuntu applications

For some time now content assist and the command panel have been broken in Eclipse and Ubiquity running under Ubuntu; they wouldn't trigger the pop-up menues when pressing CRTL+Space. The reason is ibus intercepting that key combination and it's just as easily solved [1]: Open gconf-editor. Choose desktop -> ibus -> general -> hotkey. Open … Continue reading CRTL+Space not working in Ubuntu applications →

JEE6, EJB and Glassfish diaries

Some notes while trying to get up on speed with Glassfish and JEE6, mainly about what can go wrong... and there is plenty of it. The most time-consuming activity is researching generic stack traces which hardly ever point to the real cause. NullPointerException when deploying Been there, done that: A beans.xml in META-INF might cause … Continue reading JEE6, EJB and Glassfish diaries →