Monday, February 11, 2002

The TiBook is quite a machine I picked up my new TiBook at work today (and can finally replace my well aged personal Lombard). Scared the living daylights out of myself the first time I stuck in a CD. Whacketa-whacketa-thump. Being prone to scuffing my feet and generally 'shocking' during this time of year, I also managed to shock myself on the case twice this evening. In between, I reformatted and set up several partitions (including a small UFS partition for building things which won't build properly under HFS), got a lot of tools installed, twiddled with a bunch of settings. It's a very nice system, but the mouse button is making me bonkers (I keep hitting the edge of the lip with my thumb where I expect the mouse button to be). Changing mousing fingers works, but it feels very odd. The restore CD's came with 10.1.2, 9.2.2 and several applications I'd never seen bundled before including PixelNhance and Art Directors Toolkit X 2.2. 11:53:18 PM

Dr. Suess meets Enron Red Ink and Ken. I laughed when I read it yesterday, so I had to go find it online. 8:01:24 AM

Success After much pain and most of my tinker time for the weekend, my stable (huh!?) app server system is back up and fully functional. It wasn't a total loss. I learned a lot about the internals of the Apache SOAP 2.2 implementation, and won't have any problems diving in the next time I have a problem like this. Somehow, the deployment descriptor ContextProviderURL was getting lost. Without it, the SOAP stack dropped back to the default 'iiop://localhost:900' naming service which doesn't exist here. After much hair pulling (it can't work this way, everything is right), I decided to update this system to MacOS X 10.1.2, since I was still running 10.1. I figured it couldn't hurt. Immediately, everything worked. So something was either corrupted or there was some sort of java runtime problem fixed in 10.1.2. I'll have to look at the release notes when I get a chance. I guess I thought it worked on this box because it works everywhere else. I know it's working on a 10.0.4 system at work, along with Solaris 8 and Mandrake something or other. I'm back in business anyway. 12:40:54 AM

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