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Pidgin 2.5.3 Win32 hanging-crash on exit

CypherJF — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:46:05 +0000

Several users are reporting after upgrading pidgin to 2.5.3 that exiting Pidgin after 30 days of launch the application will not gracefully terminate but rather hang. The developers have recognized the issue, and created a patched file on the bug tracker for testing. It’s expected to be included with the 2.5.4 release.

Struts2.. a beginning.

CypherJF — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:02:26 +0000

I never had an opportunity to really dive deep and learn Struts2. I found a good tutorial for beginners who want to start out fresh, check out the Simple Setup tutorial.

- Struts.xml must reside with your Java class files (or in your classpath)
- To make action calls your URL will point to *.action
- When using Tomcat+J2EE Eclipse, external JAR files in your /WEB-INF/lib folder must be added to “User libraries” and be set to export on run.
- You must also add the User Library to the Java EE Module dependency setting in the project properties.

Java, where is your CopyFile operation?

CypherJF — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:11:40 +0000

Anyone else notice Java doesn’t offer a CopyFile operation? You literally have to open two file pipes - one as the input, one as the output and copy the file manually.

It actually looks like Java 7 will finally address this lack of functionality… check out the article on java.nio.file on java.net.

DriversMax

CypherJF — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:49:57 +0000

I had read a fellow blog about 5 apps for painless windows reformats one of which was DriverMax. This free software is supposed to help you identify your drivers and look to see if there are any updates available for them. I was eager to install it to give it a shot - less time trying to hunt for drivers - the better, right? Well, although this program is free you’re required to register it before unlocking it. The registration process has been a pain in the rear - my e-mail registration code request continued to timeout. However, today they were able to fix it. But, when I registered my ID and entered in the registration code into the application (btw, lost password only re-sends you the registration code) - the program continued to say it was unregistered and I needed to register it. But, re-registering won’t work. Needless to say I had high hopes for this software I just wish they dropped the registration piece (it’s a cruddy system anyway) - obviously it’s flawed and broken stopping people from using this potentially nice software.

Anyway, if anyone has any better luck with it let me know, and I’ll try it again later.

Edit:I contacted DriverMax support the other day about this; they have manually activated the account. Huge step forward unlocking the application. Will post a review more in a few days.

server help forums back online

CypherJF — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:59:12 +0000

Mine GO BOOM has announced he was able to get a new power supply hooked up; so his site is back online and available.

Also, SSF appears to be back online at least via forums.sscentral.com; yey for progress.

MGB server offline

CypherJF — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:53:46 +0000

Spoke with Mine GO BOOM the other day, his server’s power supply blew out so all the *.minegoboom.com related websites are offline until further notice.

I’m still waiting to hear when SSForum.net will be back online - it continues to show the “this domain has yet to be renewed”. However, you can still access the forums via http://forums.sscentral.com/.No news updates have been posted on sscentral; and Smong’s SS news tracker has been discontinued. I’ll try and post things as I hear more.

Edit: posted biller offline topic at ssforum.

ASSS patches available

CypherJF — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:05:01 +0000

Snrrrub has released a few ASSS 1.4.4 patches for those who would like to enable demographic’s, and saving of scores to biller. In the coming weeks, I’ll be studying the impact of the patches and work on making appropriate implementations in Accede.

Find the patches on snrrrubs website.

Accede Progress

CypherJF — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:06:22 +0000

I have made some extra changes to the backend of Accede, I’m hoping which will help troubleshoot the “hanging” biller problem I’ve seen over the past couple of months. If you have a extra zone, please connect it into Accede and let it chill there. More concurrency/network traffic should help out.

Mervbot Plugins

CypherJF — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:44:18 +0000

This will be quick, it’s been a few years since I’ve last opened up the MervBot source code to write/edit a plugin. I find it somewhat humbling that individuals still use the code that is out there. But when I look at the code I wrote in the past it makes me cringe sometimes.

Accede back online

CypherJF — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:25:18 +0000

Kudos to Mine GO BOOM for restoring service to the Xen host he owns which Accede/asss runs on.