tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133318462012-02-03T14:18:43.943+11:00A blog recording a few of my findings, usually around java.Shaunnoreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-27842430072641267602012-01-12T18:15:00.000+11:002012-01-12T18:15:20.786+11:00

I've been trawling through a lot of logs. IIS logs. A lot. logparser is a tremendous tool for trawling through lines by way of T-SQL syntax. I have a number of requests coming out at hours, instead of seconds! What I wanted to be able to see is if there was a particular time when this nonsense started. This is a little difficult to achieve because IIS only tells you when the transaction is

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-47794437055149902622011-06-05T21:43:00.004+10:002011-06-05T23:49:10.247+10:00

If you are working with IBM WCM and you need to create a custom workflow action that will be configured to execute on entry or exit from workflow stages, and you need to use Spring, then you have a bit of a challenge on your hands.Since Websphere takes care of the instantiation of the custom workflow action class as configured in plugin.xml you need a method for injecting your spring application

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-83552015442492383462010-07-17T09:47:00.005+10:002010-07-17T09:56:30.682+10:00

If you're working with a slightly old container, or 3rd party product, and you will be making webservice calls it is imperative that you check the versions of these libraries that appear in the endorsed lib directory.If you are unable to replace these libraries in the jdk endorsed directory (because doing so would cause significant rework), I highly advise you use an older webservice client

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-2504059082491640062010-04-19T20:45:00.002+10:002010-04-19T20:49:57.779+10:00

So you're looking to pass request headers down to your portlets as request parameters.Depending on the Portal provider, you will have mixed success with this.These seem to let you do it:* Vignette Portal* Websphere PortalThese don't seem to let you do it* JBoss Portal* Pluto* LiferayPassing request parameters down to your portlets can seem good at the time, however it severely hampers your

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-75894581972056764402009-07-13T14:53:00.001+10:002009-07-13T15:01:56.900+10:00

I was having a frustrating problem (see stack trace below) when deploying a spring-security enabled application on weblogic over the last couple of weeks, and was having extreme difficulties tracking down the issue. My codebase is using jaxen (via spring-security-core), which caused "java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 110162" on weblogic deployment. Jaxen comes with a whole heap of

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-30223223415934859102009-03-25T22:51:00.003+11:002009-03-25T23:02:33.086+11:00

I just recently ported from Codehaus XFire to Apache CXF.There's lots of little gotchas in that migration process. One problem is that existing libraries that worked, might not work now because CXF depends on a whole heap of libraries that could be identical to older/newer versions of libraries your project is already depending on. You might get some ClassNotFound exceptions, etc ... it's

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-55557369485946188912009-01-14T20:46:00.005+11:002010-05-20T21:59:01.916+10:00

Apple strikes again ... nothing more to say really, except: I need contents insurance!

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-61339770498596452662009-01-07T09:35:00.001+11:002009-01-07T09:36:12.260+11:00

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/students-uni-assignments-used-in-scam/2009/01/06/1231004022935.html

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-87523850759843964992008-11-18T09:15:00.003+11:002008-11-18T09:18:52.024+11:00

This is an excellent article, initially around JVM tuning but more specifically about the state of memory management, thread allocation, detecting positive and false positive memory leaks due to application/session scoped attributes, and much more.One of the cleanest articles I've read in a while.http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2006/jw-0619-tuning.html?page=1A few bits of feedback for it

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-46798888871584042352008-11-09T11:33:00.002+11:002008-11-09T11:34:10.975+11:00

XML SWF charts got an upgrade. Really like the look of these charts now. Nice work.XML Charts

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-64466373420723544082008-10-25T19:28:00.010+11:002008-10-31T15:12:30.777+11:00

So there are a lot of people with issues with the new glossy Macbook screen. Lots of people have reported washed out colours, and sub par display quality.Considering I'm an avid Macbook Pro fan, it's hard to move backwards in the world to a Macbook. I can't hack the resolution, and argh, why would ANYONE want a glossy finish to their LCD? Bring back matte (there's a slogan in that)!Anyway, my

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-69027090386928565962008-10-06T22:52:00.002+11:002008-10-06T22:54:49.564+11:00

New, pretty easy on the ears. A few nerds from downunder (me being one of them) have started a new podcast called instantiate.Sign up, and listen in. We'll do one every now and then.The instantiate Podcast

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-80339067263062374212008-09-12T17:18:00.003+10:002008-09-12T17:25:16.712+10:00

On Wednesday night, I updated my Macbook Pro 2.33 Ghz, 4gb machine from a 160gb 5400rpm hd to a 5400rpm Samsung 500gb hd.I never thought it would be so easy, but it was, with great thanks to http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/One last thing to say about this - Mac OSX Leopard rocks. I've never done a harddrive replacement and restore in 4 hours before (on PC), but this time, with the help of

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-41429380566538222282008-09-12T16:20:00.000+10:002008-09-12T16:21:53.479+10:00

http://www.soapui.org/ - Webservice Testing and ExploringJust awesome!

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-12295661408275970342008-09-01T15:51:00.003+10:002008-09-01T15:56:11.165+10:00

Some really good links on this:How to setup a JEE project using mavenTo get a multi-module JEE Project working in eclipse, you will need to do one of two things: 1. Edit [ root ]/.classpath and add the classpath locations for each of your submodules, OR: 2. Add http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/updates/ to your eclipse download configuration. Once done, try and install "Multi Project

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-76298094002957744952008-08-15T11:22:00.003+10:002008-08-15T11:23:59.883+10:00

An simple, short and dejargonised look into OSGi.http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=OSGiforBeginners

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-56334103142654584252008-08-11T11:46:00.001+10:002008-08-11T11:47:58.744+10:00

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=SettingUpMavenRepositorySeems like an excellent article describing how to use artifactory.I work for a telco, and we've previously used promimity. The box it was housed on has gone kaplonk, so I'm looking to set up a new one.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-12545278005394789582008-08-08T17:32:00.003+10:002008-08-08T17:35:14.156+10:00

Good post about Maven, but backs maven a little more than it deserves!Maven Sucks article

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-43662347923971936982008-08-08T13:08:00.003+10:002008-08-08T13:18:32.051+10:00

This post is for those, like me, who like to paste their problems into the google search box.ProblemI was experiencing a problem with C3P0, Hibernate, PostgresQL, whereby after random periods of time (eg 1 minute, 20 minutes, 4 hours), I would get the following quoted exception stack.INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/08/05 21:46:49 | 2008-08-05 21:46:49,000 [Timer-0] (BasicResourcePool.java:1392) INFO - A

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-64566303894704694852008-08-01T10:19:00.002+10:002008-08-01T10:22:08.476+10:00

Got a MAC? Get growl. It is awesome. It provides you with desktop popup notifications for "all" your applications that support it. The design is fully customisable with themes and the ability to set the usual opacity/transparency.I'm using it with conversation, firefox (seems to work OOTB), thunderbird (need to install a plugin), adium, and more.Very useful, and helpful for me - someone who never

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-71052148787144341302008-07-29T15:49:00.003+10:002008-07-29T16:19:34.330+10:00

Getting this error?org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested @@exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: JNDI object with [java:/jdbc/pgds] not found: JNDI implementation returned nullHave a look at my issue:http://pastebin.com/

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-28804245283637782592008-05-24T18:28:00.003+10:002008-05-24T18:33:59.149+10:00

Works an absolute charm. I'm working on a java service that is polling gigs of data via webservices a day. There can be up to 30 webservice transactions per second. This puts a lot of weight on your database connections, particularly if you don't have database pooling.I was running into an issue where my postgres conf had only granted the postgres daemon 30 non-superuser connections at any given

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-34990062831254152562008-03-11T21:25:00.004+11:002008-03-11T21:32:19.074+11:00

http://www.smh.com.au/news/perspectives/when-standards-aint-standards/2008/03/11/1205125864040.htmlMicrosoft Office 2007 is a fabulous piece of software. It is not a minor upgrade, as most previous versions have been. It does everything much better. But, despite the fact that it's now been released for more than a year, hardly anybody is using it.I deal with many people with whom I have to swap

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-57689174805510624632008-01-11T09:43:00.000+11:002008-01-11T09:45:28.550+11:00

Thanks to Mr Masson for the link to this one.Apparently I'll be needing to purchase this book soon!Baby Book Link

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-57810513661128077422008-01-02T23:28:00.000+11:002008-01-02T23:31:45.767+11:00

I spent a while on this one!If you are trying to write PL/PGSQL and you can't figure out why your create function is failing with:ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist...it's because the PL/PGSQL language hasn't yet been installed against your database template.Run the following command to install into your database....createlang --username=postgres plpgsql [database]There are actually heaps

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-67206398351864356482007-12-31T08:18:00.001+11:002007-12-31T08:19:18.874+11:00

JSMin extracts unnecessary whitespace and comments out of your javascript source (which means less http request time!)http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-33650730344655130492007-12-31T07:47:00.001+11:002007-12-31T07:58:25.548+11:00

Here are some good introductory links if you are seeking to understand the JSR168 specification. In particular it gives a good graphical breakdown on how a Portal view is constructed, and talks about the lifecycle of a portlet.http://www.developer.com/java/web/article.php/3366111http://www.developer.com/java/web/article.php/3372881You should probably get familiar with the actual specification

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-9111544366974480332007-12-30T15:14:00.000+11:002007-12-30T15:19:49.184+11:00

There are a LOT of things I like about Hibernate. I've been using it a lot lately, in particular as my ORM tool within a java surveillance engine I have been writing.Some of the best features of hibernate are:* findBy... automatic generation of the findBy methods for each of the fields in a table* HQL and criterion - I'm still wondering if anyone uses HQL completely and fully. I'm still finding

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-16815884201870396452007-12-09T22:51:00.000+11:002007-12-09T22:52:23.436+11:00

http://www.exclusivelyfood.com.au/2006/06/prawn-cocktail-recipe.htmlPretty nice huh! Sometimes it's not so good to think about what you put in your food :)

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-19478449573071521572007-12-09T14:46:00.000+11:002007-12-09T14:49:36.584+11:00

So I was searching through my website hits and came across the Twiceler robot. Had never heard of that before.Traced it through to a new search engine startup:Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.htmlI was wondering, what gives someone the drive to write a new search engine?Off that page is a really interesting article about the mechanics of designing a search engine and some

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-72306711111330092007-11-24T00:20:00.000+11:002007-11-24T00:24:20.308+11:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2215950,00.htmlFinally, people agree that M/S Explorer has sunk to all new lows! Blaming it on an iceburg hey - HAH!Stupid explorer.exe

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-41820655917939400512007-11-04T21:47:00.000+11:002007-11-04T22:04:37.685+11:00

There is no disputing that OSX 10 is the best operating system I've ever used. There is something special about being able to bring up a bsd terminal when you want to do something the quick way.Today I spent $AU158 and purchased OSX 10.5. I'd done my research on this one - I even tried to be hardcore and listen to reviews from Leo and crew on Twit about the latest apple release.There is no doubt

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1135984231808399392005-12-31T09:59:00.000+11:002006-05-02T23:57:43.153+10:00

It's been an interesting year. All in all, it turned itself around fairly quickly. One year closer to retirement, and sorry to be morbid, one year closer to death.This has been a swift year post-university. After a gruelling honours year, my first year of work has been a bit more relaxed. Sure there's been lots going on, but the pressure and work hours are not nearly the same.I heard on the radio

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1135229075273912122005-12-22T16:23:00.000+11:002005-12-28T22:42:23.260+11:00

I think I'm into it now. It took a few days. I think also the realisation that I'm off for a week helps quite a bit...MMM, I can smell that turkey from here.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1134970748259128322005-12-19T16:38:00.000+11:002005-12-19T16:39:08.260+11:00

Is it really here?I can't get into the festivities this year...I've got a week off over Christmas. That's kinda exciting. Haven't had a break in a while.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1129678760605553262005-10-19T09:38:00.000+10:002005-10-19T09:39:20.613+10:00

Found this on the web:The backspace, up, and down arrow keys don't work in my TOAD. What's going on?We suspect that the file "plsqlkeys.bin" is getting corrupted.Please try the following:1. Close TOAD.2. Delete "plsqlkeys.bin" from your temps directory.3. Reopen TOAD and see whether those keys now work.Fixed my toad!

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1125759817909620372005-09-03T23:57:00.000+10:002005-09-04T01:03:37.916+10:00

Discovered a problem with recent IBM Thinkpads (with default software installs).When you insert a media peripheral such as a PCMCIA card, USB Memory Stick, etc, the thinkpad slows down greatly, particularly noticable when typing text.This is due to two Access IBM applications that seem to cause some troubles:1) Access IBM 'Keyboard Mapper' application2) Access IBM 'Remove Hardware' applicationTry

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1125323070049025102005-08-29T23:42:00.000+10:002005-08-29T23:44:30.056+10:00

Pineapple would have to be the most tasty fruit ever. It is tasty, tangy and challenging all at the same time.But how could something so tasty result in something causing discomfort?I ate around 3 pieces of pineapple tonight and my lips are sizzling, my tongue feels shaven!

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1124975127861167192005-08-25T22:59:00.000+10:002005-08-25T23:05:27.866+10:00

I continue to ponder how people get pumped up to work on open source projects. I'm sure they do a great deal for your skills, but hey, i think I'd struggle knowing that there's only so much joy you can get out of working for free.Handy HintOn the other hand, if you EVER have a problem running cron jobs on Cygwin in windows, ensure you run dos2unix on your "crontab.in" file or else you could be in

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1124975816085744062005-08-23T23:15:00.000+10:002005-08-25T23:16:56.086+10:00

Ever wondered where SquirrelMail + Concept Lattice's get you? This was my honours project thesis at uni.http://www.kvocentral.org/kvopapers/domingo04mailstrainer.pdf

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1123164732002972212005-08-05T00:06:00.000+10:002005-08-05T00:12:12.116+10:00

Strapped to a fret of creativity. @|------------------O----|---|---------------------|------------||| | | | b@ | |||------bO----------|----|---|-----|---------------|------------||| 4 | | | @ | {} |||-------|---------------|---------------|------|--|------------||| 4

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1122170121523016462005-07-24T11:38:00.000+10:002005-07-24T11:55:21.530+10:00

To those who think their deliberate actions of wrath on people on Earth will be acknowledged as good deeds:Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance.Therefore, the Lord

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1121240719673139402005-07-13T17:41:00.000+10:002005-07-13T17:45:19.676+10:00

Ever been on a technical boot camp. That's where I've been going the last few days.It doesn't exactly live up to its mame, but it certainly comes close. I'm on a 3 week, intensive training course, learning lots about the product I support at work.Other than that, it's been interesting hearing how passionate some people are about water recycling over other methods of water reproduction.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1120454172709714472005-07-04T15:11:00.000+10:002005-07-04T15:16:12.710+10:00

One day as a boy, I would dream. Not of winning a tennis tournament, but of being in such a form that I'd dazzle shots, forehand and backhand, across court with ease, and with vindiction. Federer, mate, just too good. What do you eat? More importantly, what do you feed your racquet? That was a super wimbledon display - not even an ounce of nervousness protruded from you. I'm sure on the inside,

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1120453838142039352005-07-04T15:06:00.000+10:002005-07-04T15:10:38.146+10:00

If life could be a simple trot,life would have no matter, such is not,and abundance of business pertruding oxygen from the brain,like endless flutter of such rain.So life's been pretty good. Finished up some youth group stuff on the weekend. Work is work and God is super grand.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1119912290492926392005-06-28T08:41:00.000+10:002005-06-28T08:44:50.600+10:00

Well, I've been absolutely smashed the last couple of days after the youth service on Sunday night. I think I've got bronchitis/flu/dizzyness/need sleep.If you know me, you would probably know that I hardly ever sleep like I should. Well yesterday I slept for about 10 hours during the day, and still slept well last night (which is a huge shock). I feel better this morning, but still too sick to

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1119787582392737672005-06-26T22:01:00.000+10:002005-06-26T22:06:22.400+10:00

Tonight our Young Adults pastor gave a really challenging sermon on how we should submit to God's authority, be that to God directly, to our parents (who were instituted by God), to the Government, to the Lolly Pop lady, whoever or whatever it might be.I was challenged on a number of fronts because sometimes I'm likely to make judgements on whether or not I obey authority, simply because I submit

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1119274590037294482005-06-20T23:34:00.000+10:002005-06-20T23:36:30.043+10:00

It's every tennis player's greatest sporting dream. The quality of the competition always brings about tantelising mouth watering.Yes, it's that time of the year again folks, when all guns are blazing. The whipper-snipper's been put away, the grass is nice and trim, and the players are ready to give the base line a white pasting.Better still, the tennis is on TV when I turn it on at 11:30pm.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1118662758563924072005-06-13T21:36:00.000+10:002005-06-13T21:39:18.566+10:00

The power of a long weekend is incomprehensible; they work wonders. They allow you time to catch up with friends, family, sleep. What a commodity.Of course you already knew this, but I didn't. The world outside of education is an interesting expedition.

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1118452317174867112005-06-11T11:03:00.000+10:002005-06-11T11:12:28.346+10:00

God is almighty, all powerful: no words can adequately describe His glory and His unfailing love.Last night we had a boy/girls night, where we went our separate ways. This was one of the best nights we've had all term. From what I hear, the girls gelled like nothing before amidst thousands of pancakes and iced biscuits, and the guys got into our relatively rough games of oztag and soccer. The

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1118321933769642782005-06-09T23:00:00.000+10:002005-06-09T22:58:53.773+10:00

I remember the days of our family's first computer - a 22Mhz, 4Mb Ram, Black and White laptop with trackball - 120Mb harddisk (And that was huge!).That was around 1993. My, how things have changed!http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3820

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1118313796335569172005-06-09T20:35:00.000+10:002005-06-09T20:43:16.340+10:00

Personality affects the way events are organised and participated in.For example, would you classify yourself as intraverted? I am. I get engaged by activity that are generally competitive in nature, situations where I can apply myself.Do more outgoing people lose interest in an organised activity, and become harder to engage. I've been monitoring that this year. I tend to find that people who

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1118042954120340572005-06-06T17:26:00.000+10:002005-06-06T17:29:14.120+10:00

Quote:"The Qur'an uses several verbs to describe the dishonest attitude of 'the people of the book' towards the Scriptures. These include akhfa (to conceal), baddala (to substitute), katama (to cover up), and nasa (to forget). The strongest verb is without doubt harrafa (to give something a wrong direction). In three out of the four verses this verb is used in an expression that means literally '

Shaunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13331846.post-1118042703885500082005-06-06T17:22:00.000+10:002005-06-06T17:25:03.886+10:00

I still fail to see how, between the time period of 8:15am to 9:00am, there can be 4/5 trains going in the Campbelltown direction for 3 going in the city direction.I'd also like to mention that I do not feel overly safe standing under the Padstow Railstation bridge on Padstow station. There is a large crack that spans a third of the width of the wall.

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I ate Yum Cha with a friend this morning. This was a new experience for me, nonetheless a good one!I would sincerely advise trying Yum Cha. Typically the waiters come around with a food cart, and offer dishes of 'finger-food' - mostly in the form of a meat/vegetable/tofu/etc wrapped by some kind of stringy element/pastry. Really nice.And their mini sticky buns are supurb also!

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Yet another debugging exercise where Google saved the day.Open up Microsoft Word 2k - crash. Suspect word template problem, rename normal.dot in some location.Fiddle around for many hours of installations, figuring this is a registry issue.Word opens. Move mouse over File Menu, Click - crash.Get sick of trying. Time to dialup connect on computer, access google.Solution found. Was corrupted

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Did you know that the Dead Sea Scrolls report the majority of the book of Isaiah, and that they are said to have existed since the early 2nd century?I found out today from a friend that Equinox is a good template app for J2EE using Spring. https://equinox.dev.java.net/

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Why is it, 45-50 years on from the explosion of the digital era, that we still have the situation where hardware is relatively bug free, and software is relatively completely buggy?Is it because hardware is placed under rigorous testing ?Is it because software is more articulate, less functional, and more prone to human error.This topic arouses annoying and frustrating thoughts.

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This morning on the train I read a bit more of my book comparing two faiths: Christianity and Islam.There are 3 principles to falsification, based on Islamic teaching.The Muslims place blame on the Jews (one of the people groups of the "People of the Book") for distorting and distorting God's word and prophecy, modifying it according to their evil desires.

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