some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
Currently we are developing the connection to mPAY to handle payments for our online time tracking application timr.com. mPAY provides a https URL that takes the payment parameters and returns if the transaction was successful. When testing the call to this URL from our server we always got the following error message: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors [...]
I am used to configuring logwatch on my linux servers to get information about what is going on with my systems (although I do not look into the logwatch mails every day). Lately I had some problems configuring my email adress on the Debian and Ubuntu systems. The logwatch process sent the mail to my [...]
I am using Windows for most of my daily work, currently Windows Vista and I a quite happy with it. Although currently I am mainly developing Java (web) applications which could be done on Mac OS or Linux too there are some reasons for that. The biggest one is that I using (loving) BlackBerry devices [...]
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: 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 [...]