some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
I wrote about the troubles I had to mount the Amazon storage on my virtual server from Hosteurope. Yesterday I stumbled over the twitter account of Jungledisk and I asked them for help. The gave me the tip to use WebDAV for uploading to my storage. So today I gave it a try and installed [...]
I am using jungledisk for about half a year now to backup my Ubuntu home server online (photos, mp3, …). Today I tried to configure the virtual server this blog is running on to backup my blog with jungledisk – but I had no luck. Jungledisk uses fuse to mount the web service storage and [...]
In: Java
25 Apr 2009Lately I was a bit surprised when I found out that the default rounding mode in Java is something called “half even”. This API docs page provides good information about rounding in Java. For HAVE_EVEN it says: Rounding mode to round towards the “nearest neighbor” unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case, round towards [...]
Since I installed the Skype 4 Beta last year I occasionally got the an I/O Error when starting Skype. Sometimes rebooting helped but within the last weeks the error occurred more frequently and I wanted to find out what causes the problem. I found out that there is even a FAQ entry for that problem [...]
Today I tried to connect Apple Mail to our Exchange Server. I found out that though Apple Mail says “Exchange protocol” it tries to connect over IMAP4 to the server. The error message that port 143 was not available for a connection gave another hint. So I had to configure the IMAP4 protocol on our [...]
In: Linux
14 Apr 2009I updated my virtual linux box today because I had to debug my application. I noticed that the time/date was not correct and so I searched the web for how to configure the time on my Ubuntu 8.10. I found that there was already ntpdate installed and a script that is every time when a [...]