http://cypherjf.sscentral.com the personal blog of the player known as CypherJF Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:46:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2009/01/01/pidgin-253-win32-hanging-crash-on-exit/ 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/11/09/struts2-a-beginning/ 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/11/05/java-where-is-your-copyfile-operation/ 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/09/12/driversmax/ 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. http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/09/09/server-help-forums-back-online/ 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/09/08/mgb-server-offline/ 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. http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/08/23/asss-patches-available/ 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/04/15/accede-progress-3/ 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 ... http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/04/07/mervbot-plugins/ Kudos to Mine GO BOOM for restoring service to the Xen host he owns which Accede/asss runs on. http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2008/02/20/accede-back-online/