Skype today refused to receive messages. I could see the balloons, but the message-boxes were empty.

Rebooting failed.
Updating Skype failed.

I got tired and removed my account’s local db (history and other stuff) and it all worked as a charm.

Local db located at ~/Library/Application Support/Skype/[username]

The article is written based on Windows Server, CollabNet Subversion 1.6.1, Apache 2.2. Windows XP or Vista would do as well.

Subversion comes with it’s own server – svnserve. By default there is no security. One can install svn+ssh, but on a windows server and windows client that is a bit stupid.

The other option is to setup an Apache server with mod_dav and mod_dav_svn. Fortunately the CollabNet Subversion binary comes with Apache pre-bundled with those modules. The binary even installs viewvc, which is rather nice.

Installation steps.

After installing the bundle, however, there are a lot of things to do. Most of them manually. I’ll try to describe most of them here.

Download Collabnet Subversion Server binary from CollabNet (no other place to download it from). Registration required.

So we decided to use Apache instead of svnserve, so while installing one doesn’t have to make it a service. Only Apache should be installed as a service. Another pro for Apache is that it can host multiple SVN repositories as opposed to only one by svnserve AFAIK.

Now is the time to suggest that one make the Apache server run with limited credentials. By default the service would be running with Local System account which has more privileges than God the users in the Administrators group. The concrete steps would be to create one user with compmgmt.msc. Remove it from the Users group (which removes all the default privileges) and give this user Modify right for the httpd directory (one will most probably find it in C:\Program files\Subversion\httpd) and all the repositories.

The configuration. When installing Apache asks where is the repositories basedir. Using a basedir means that all the repositories are subdirectories of the basedir:

Subversion/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  SVNParentPath "D:/SVN Repositories/"    <— put the qoutes. installer does not do it
</Location>

Note: by default the installer does not put quotes around the dir, so if there are space characters, the server will not start. One should put the quotes himself/herself.

Now is the time to say that the Apache server is very verbose. Every error show up in the Event Viewer in the Applications tab. There are always pretty good descriptions of what is wrong. I definitely like this feature of Apache. Unfortutely one has to use Google to figure how to fix it.

Another place to look for errors is httpd/logs/errors.log. Pretty readable. I’m positively surprised.

I don’t like the basedir approach – repositories with me are in different dirs. I do it like this

<Location /svn/mycompany>
   DAV svn
   SVNPath "D:/My Company/Repository"                   <— put the qoutes
</Location>

Authentication. Very shortly – http basic and http digest. Http basic is very insecure (only base64). Http basic looks like this:

<Location /svn/mycompany>
   DAV svn
   SVNPath "D:/My Company/Repository"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "MyCompany subversion repository"
   AuthUserFile "C:\Program Files\Subversion/httpd/conf/svn_auth_file"
   Require valid-user
</Location>

Now, how to make the user’s file (svn_auth_file). Use htpasswd (only for http basic):

C:\Program Files\Subversion\httpd\bin>htpasswd -cm ..\conf\svn_auth_file mihail
New password: ******
Re-type new password: ******
Adding password for user mihail

C:\Program Files\Subversion\httpd\bin>htpasswd -m ..\conf\svn_auth_file ivan
New password: *****
Re-type new password: *****
Updating password for user ivan

The first time –c is used to create the file. Any subsequent user is with –m only (which stands for MD5 as far as I remember).

svn_auth_file:

mihail:$apr1$AzWq5tu5$k554PODb79n9TZwBxBDh..
ivan:$apr1$hlr9s6gK$oFLP1WtwvOLczyUSiP10v/

For http digest the configuration first the module has to be uncommented in httpd.conf:

LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so    <—uncomment this line

the configuration for the location is the following:

<Location /svn/mycompany>
…
AuthType Digest
…

And users are made with htdigest:

C:\Program Files\Subversion\httpd\bin>htdigest.exe –c ../conf/svn_auth_file "MyCompany subversion repository" mihail
Adding user mihail in realm MyCompany subversion repository
New password: ******
Re-type new password: ******

C:\Program Files\Subversion\httpd\bin>htdigest.exe ../conf/svn_auth_file "MyCompany subversion repository" ivan
Adding user ivan in realm MyCompany subversion repository
New password: ******
Re-type new password: ******

The file svn_auth_file looks a bit different now:

mihail:MyCompany subversion repository:3d16aced3eac2fc74ce5663df86d145b
ivan:MyCompany subversion repository:3ff20546c01028d5008651445b62d2e0

Note: keep in mind that the realms in svn_auth_file and the <Location AuthName should match.

Note: do not confuse htpasswd and htdigest. They produce users for http basic and http digest respectively and are not interchangeable.

For now there is a pretty usable svn server that supports multiple repositories and digest auth. But the communication with the server is plain and unencrypted http.

The svnbook is available here (most up-to-date version 1.5): http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html. The chapter for servers is Chapter 6.

The next part is how to setup a SSL on top of Apache.

The blog just said:

You were pinged back by
http://mihail.stoynov.com/blog/2009/05/10/TestBlogPostWithWindowsLiveWriter.aspx
on your weblog entry 'Usability of the blog'
(http://mihail.stoynov.com/blog/2009/05/05/UsabilityOfTheBlog.aspx

I’ve linked myself in the past but I guess this feature was off or broken.

I’ve heard of Windows Live Writer but I’ve always thought that it only works for Blogger and Sharepoint. A comment to the blog (here) made me investigate whether dasBlog would support WLW. It does. This is the first blog post with WLW.

While installing WLW in my virtual Windows XP (I’ll write about that later if WLW works) I decided to update the blog. The update can now be installed with something called Web Platform Installer 2.0. It installs crap directly from the internet especially crap for IIS:

(Wow, WLW can inline the image in the text. I’ve always missed that.)

So, let’s see how this blog post would look like.

Submit... (in this case “Publish”)

Update: this cannot be true. WLW has live preview that embeds the post in the blog, this is so f*cking cool. Look at it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image thumbnails, resizing. Categories. Everything seems to work seamlessly. So let’s finally submit it and see what happens (I may start using this a lot).

Watching the blog stat one can't help but notice the decreasing amount of articles (I guess my single reader and I are the ones that should notice). Maybe it's because a lack of time. Maybe it's because of too much work,study or travel (I'm currently in Turkey on vacation).

Lately one new reason is emerging in my head (yes, it takes them (the thought) some time to mature :). Maybe I'm not writing that much because of the usability of the blog. The usability from the readers' point of view is bad (here for example,), but it's hard to fix it and I'm too lazy to do it. But now I'd like to talk about usability from my perspective (as the author).

I'm running the blog (hosted on dasBlog) at my own server with a very cheap internet connection so it's a bit slow. dasBlog doesn't do any kind of image help (not to mention anything more complex) - I have to do my own thumbnails (I so very much hate that). dasBlog's rich text editor does not support my phone's browser or Safari.

So at the end even if i think of a good story it takes a lot of time to represent it in the blog. Especially if it's very visual, or even only a bit visual.

So I have to think of other ways to improve my experience. And I just thought of one. I'll write when I do it.

I just watched the 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck. It basically depicts the communist witch-hunt that happened in the US just after the WWII. It's very moving and a bit sad (especially at the end with the faith of the main character).

The movie made me spend some time on Wikipedia reading about McCarthy, Murrow and Hollenbeck. Very interesting. Makes one think whether we have the same media now.

Directed by George Clooney. 6 Academy awards nominations. Highly recommended.

Gmail recently changed the "Attach..." button with a flash one. Today I found out why. Now one can attach multiple documents with one click. It's awesome.

Update: due to some comments here are some screenshots:

On a mac (firefox) it's working:





On Windows (firefox) there was no flash button. (I've seen Gmail and other google applications change the look&feel on different browsers and different google users. Maybe that's the reason.)

The screenshot:

Do the following multiple times:


The first time you do it the container.root.ca.jks would be created. The subsequent times it will just be filled up with new and new keypairs (public and private keys).

How to do networking with VMWare Workstation or VMWare Fusion?

For clarity, let's assume that the host (the machine running vmware fusion or vmware workstation) has the ip of 192.168.0.10.

On every virtual machine there are three options:
Bridged (VM becomes visible to other machines beside the host. It has an IP like 192.168.0.11).
Nat (VM is visible only to the host, there is internet).
Host only (VM is visible only to the host, but no internet).


Do ipconfig or ifconfig.
vmnet8 is for NAT.
vmnet1 is for host-only.
These are whole networks for virtual machines. If nat is chosen, then the VM would be supplied an IP from the vmnet8 pool.


DHCP.
If 'bridged' is chosen, then the administrator of 192.168.0.1 must assign an address to the VM.
if 'nat' or 'host-only' is chosen, then:
(I'll describe how to do this on a mac):

goto:

$cd /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion

stop vmware networking:

$sudo ./boot.sh --stop



Let's suppose vmnet8 is 172.16.57.1 and vmnet1 is 172.16.163.1.


I would like to change the network from 172.16.57.1 to 172.16.16.1 and I would like to specify a virtual machine with a specific IP.

We're still in /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion

Then:
$ grep 172.16.57 *
locations:answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_HOSTADDR 172.16.57.1

Then all files in the list must be changed.
Then we go into /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/

Then the same: 

$ grep 172.16.57 *
dhcpd.conf:subnet 172.16.57.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
dhcpd.conf:    range 172.16.57.128 172.16.57.254;
dhcpd.conf:    option broadcast-address 172.16.57.255;
dhcpd.conf:    option domain-name-servers 172.16.57.2;
dhcpd.conf:    option netbios-name-servers 172.16.57.2;
dhcpd.conf:    option routers 172.16.57.2;
nat.conf:ip = 172.16.57.2
nat.conf:# or ip = 172.16.57.2/24



All of them must be changed.

If a specific VM must have a specific IP we go to:
/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/dhcpd.conf and we add the following:
(get the mac from the VM (ipconfig, ifconfig eth0))

host myhost {
    hardware ethernet 00:0C:29:B2:C9:69;
    fixed-address 172.16.16.16;
}


Then to renew the ip (ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew for windows):
sudo ifconfig vmnet down
sudo ifconfig vmnet up


The last thing is to start the vmware networking:
sudo ./boot.sh --start



Then to renew the ip inside the VM (ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew for windows):
sudo ifconfig vmnet down
sudo ifconfig vmnet up

It's like bringing "the Vista experience" to a Mac.
I didn't like it.

It's super slow.
The windows do not open where they're supposed to. The tool boxes open in different window (I have Spaces on).
The interface is new and unintuitive.
The windows focus is changed randomly so I have to fight for it.

(Updated: four six typos fixed)

I)
From time to time I need a self-signed certificate. I use the java keytool utility to make one:

For a JKS (Java Key Store format):

For a PKCS#12 keystore:

When the public certificate is needed separately, one can be exported in a file (mihail.stoynov.cer) like this:
(from a JKS)

(from a PKCS#12)



II)
Sometimes self-signed certificates are not enough and a CA root certificate must be made in order to sign a group of certificates.

First a Certificate signing request (CSR) must be made:
(from a JKS)

(from a PKCS#12)

(the output is directed to a file: mihail.stoynov.cer)

The file looks something like that:


Did we forget something? Yes, there's no Root CA certificate. Let's make one:
(JKS)

(PKCS#12)



Problem No 1
Keytool cannot sign CSRs. Period.

Now what do we do?

I went to OpenSSL.

In order to sign with OpenSSL I needed the root certificate in the PEM format.
P12 (PKCS#12) -> PEM:

Sign the CSR with OpenSSL:
(I don't know what -CAcreateserial is but it works)

So now I have mihail.stoynov.signed.cer.

The last step is to import it to mihail.stoynov.p12 (or .jks) in order to override the self-signed certificate with the one signed by the MyCompany Root CA.

A Prerequisite step to that is to import mycompany.root.ca.cer into mihail.stoynov.p12 (or .jks) because every certificate in the chain must be contained in the certificate chain of mihail.stoynov.



Problem No 2
Importing mycompany.root.ca.cer into mihail.stoynov.p12 fails but importing it into mihail.stoynov.jks works?!

JKS:
(this one works)

PKCS#12
this one fails with:

Actually P12 format does not permit trusted certificates. It is inteded to contain key/pairs only. So importing mycompany.root.ca.cer into mihail.stoynov.p12 failed.


I tried several things:

1) Importing mihail.stoynov.signed.cer directly into mihail.stoynov.p12:
and the response was:

2) Importing mycompany.root.ca.cer into cacerts:
This again didn't fix the problem.



Solution to Problem No 2:
Transform P12 to JKS, import the root certificate and the signed certificate into JKS keystore, transform the modified JKS back to P12.

1) Transform P12 to JKS 2) import the root certificate into the JKS keystore
3) import signed certificate into JKS keystore 4) transform the modified JKS back to P12 it said something like:
I clicked yes, and it worked.


Now let's see what's the difference between mihail.stoynov.jks and mihail.stoynov.p12:
JKS:

P12 (PKCS#12)



Do you see the difference?
It's in italic - JKS format keeps an extra trusted certificate of MyCompany Root CA.

Anyway both mihail.stoynov.jks and mihail.stoynov.p12 work perfectly.


P.S.
Does someone know better solutions to Problem No 1 and Problem No 2?
Does someone know how to sign certificates but without the cumbersome CSR step?

VMWare Fusion on a MacBook.

The book "Introduction to Programming with Java" I coauthored is out.



The book is in Bulgarian and it's free.

For now it's only in electronic form, but we're planning to print it. We're not planning on making profit from the printed book, so we're looking for sponsors.

I co-wrote the Exceptions chapter and authored the Object-oriented programming (OOP) chapter and the Qualitative programming code chapter.

This happened on a Windows XP machine with the latest updates.

While searching for updates I found out that Nokia gives 1-week free navigation licenses.
One can be obtained from here.

Instructions: a mobile phone has to be supplied and a serial key is sent as an sms that has to be inputted in Nokia Maps. Unfortunatelly +359 (Bulgaria's country code) is not supported (but Romania is) so I used a friend's phone.

Yesterday I tested the thing and it's amazing. The routes it calculates are better than Garmin's ones. Interacting with the software is so much better, especially browsing the map - awesome. There is voice guiding in Bulgarian.

The generally good thing with Nokia Maps is that it's free (the software). There are a lot of maps that are also free. Only the routing capability has to be purchased - it's not very cheap.

Unfortunately their maps are really poor. Bulgaria's map is only 4 megabytes. The Bolkans' map is like 40-50 if I recall correctly.

In the world of windows there is no standard tool to see what's going on the network level.

I have been working quite a while with web services and encryption and signing, so it's vital to me to see what's going on when a web service is being called.

TCP proxies
The way I was doing it until recently was to use TCP proxies. TCP proxies open a TCP port and forward to some other host:port. In the process of doing so it dumps every connection on the screen or in a file.
For example if I want to listen what's going on a local (for the machine I'm working on) port 8080 the following had to be done: the software working on 8080 (a web service) is moved for example to 18080, then the proxy is opened at 8080 which forwards everything to localhost:18080.

There is one minor drawback to the whole story -  the clients have to be supplied with a port that is not the port where the service resides. So if the proxy is missing - the service is invisible.

I've used mostly tcpmon and wsmonitor. wsmonitor sucks a lot. tcpmon works, but cannot handle moderately heavy traffic and has a lot of quirks that are very annoying. Anyway until recently it was my primary way of doing things.


Reading direcly from the TCP/IP Stack
There has always been software that can plug something in the TCP/IP stack of the windows machine and thus sniff the traffic. The bad side is that the machine has to be tampered with some third-party software. And some machines cannot (should not) be tampered like that.


A third way
There seems to be a software that can sniff the traffic without plugging nasty stuff in the TCP/IP stack. On such example is SmartSniff. It has what they call a "Raw Sockets" way of sniffing and so far it's working great.

The server went down because of me being stupid.

I have stopped the http service (IIS), and backed it up. But then I was stupid enough not to bring it back on.

And then - why are there no events?

I can't distinguish notes. This makes it hard for me to tune up my guitar.

There are tuners that just play a certain tone and one should be able to tune up based on the tone heard. I can't do it like that.

That's why I searched for a tuner that could "hear" my guitar.

Guess what - I found it. It's called AP Tuner 3:

It's amazing. It just works. No configuration, no nothing.
This is how software should be written.

I haven't written in over a month.

During this time I busted my ass off (worked a lot).

Somewhere around my last post I managed to stop the coffee, which for me is like a dream-come-true. One would ask - so what, it's not that hard? For me it was. I started drinking coffee in 10th grade. Around my first year in the university I started drinking a lot - my personal best is 8 cups per day. Since then it got stable around 6 cups/day.
From that time off I have made two attempts to stop it. They both failed. The first one managed to drop the dose to around 3 cups. The second attempt managed to drop to 1-2 cups per day. During the "dry period" I wasn't the same guy - I slept a lot, I couldn't stay focused - it was difficult.
The third attempt I did was different - it was easy. I guess the first two did the job. This time I just sealed the deal.
One would also ask - is coffee that bad? I don't know really. For me it was because I drank a lot and couldn't control it.

I stopped my facebook account - for me the cons are more than the pros.

Microsoft has a term "knowledge base article" which solves a particular problem or at least describes it better.
It comes out, there's a term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_base

Today was the second time I use the blog as a knowledge base. I know I have stumbled upon a problem, I think I wrote about it, I search the blog - there it is, and it solves my problem again.
Great, another usage of the seemingly useless blog.

There's an Apache Tomcat I'm managing that's in the wild (internet).

Saturday evening it was under attack.

I use Tomcat's manager console to drop applications from time to time and I had it's password pretty simple. Within this console a new java web application may be installed.
What's even worse is that that Tomcat instance was running with pretty high privileges.

It was a test machine, only a few guys knew the address.

So using this console a trojan was inserted. The admin password was changed. This trojan might have succeeded if it weren't for the antivirus that got the trojan on time (yes, it was a windows machine).
The trojan is called TROJ_DELF.BDG and it was deployed in webapps/fexshell/init.exe

Now the tomcat is running with pretty low privileges, the port is not so obvious, and the manager password is changed.

Did you know that classes in the 'default package' (classes that don't have a package) cannot be imported from classes that do have a package?

I did not know that.

Try it:

This is what javac says:



How stupid is this?
Is this why omitting package is deprecated?

The last couple of posts look terribly in Internet Explorer 6. There are some background rectangles that should not be there:



IE7 displays them correctly.

Update: Maybe it's because I used Word 2007 to write the html for the colored code from Eclipse.

I had an issue compiling some java classes. Javac failed, Eclipse's compiler worked. The issue is described here.
I was blaming Eclipse, I was blaming java6's endorsing. I was thinking it was due to JAXB.

It comes out they all were innocent.

Here's my code:

The result with javac is:


After some research I think I simplified the problem:
(If I continue to simplify it would still fail to compile but at some point it would start to compile which yesterday drove me crazy.
This is the most simplistic case that consistently fails to compile)
All of these changes fix the compilation error (from javac):


or



This all makes me think that the static import fails the next one only if the next one is an annotation (I've tried with a java.util.Collection - it compiled).
I have tried this with jdk6u3 and jdk6u10.
I don't have jdk 1.5. Can someone test it on jdk 1.5?



Update: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, Somebody found it before me:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6391197
It was reported on 27th of June, 2006

Here's what they say:

I have some code.
I have two classes. They both have inner enums.
The two inner enums have an annotation.

But one of them does not compile. The other one compiles just fine.

In eclipse there's no error, but when I build the code from ant I get a compilation error - the annotation class is not found:


I spent some time looking for it - I thought that the classpath is wrong, I endorsed an updated version of the API (java 6). The issue persisted.

Then I decided to use javac directly:



Strangely enough I got the same error?! Then I did the same for the class that did compile successfully using ant - it worked.
So there was a difference between the two classes and I had to find it.

And I found it, can you find it?


Yes, you're correct. The second enum is not static.
This only happens with inner static enums. The anomaly does not occur if it's an inner static class. I don't know why.

So I'm thinking that in the ProblematicClass the annotation is not visible because the import of XmlType is not visible.
I was correct - this one works:


I just supplied the FQN of @XmlType.

So eclipse is working, javac is not. Now is the time to say that Eclipse is not using javac. I thought it was using jikes (made by IBM), but that's not correct. Eclipse is using its own incremental compiler part of JDT Core. JDT stands for Eclipse Java Development Tools.

http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/core/:


So either javac or Eclipse's compiler is wrong. I would bet that javac is following the spec more strictly.

This is the second time I'm catching Eclipse's compiler of misconduct. The first time was something related to a very complex case with generics - one of the compilers said it was a warning, the other - error. More here.


Update: I was wrong. I was trying to report the problem. I was making a pretty simple case. I used a different annotation: @javax.annotation.Resource. It worked both on Eclipse and on javac.
So the problem is somehow linked with JAXB.

 JAXB is an API bundled with Java 6 (an 'endorsed standard' a 'standalone technology'). The version bundled was JAXB 2.0. If one wants to use a newer version, say JAXB 2.1, an 'Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism' had to be used.

Info on JAXB here.
Info on endorsed mechanism here.

I'm currently with JDK 6 update 10. Somewhere I saw that 'endorsed standard override mechanism' was no longer necessary.

It looks like the problem is more on javac side than on Eclipse's compiler.

I will investigate further.


Update2: It comes out that 'Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism' was existing prior to java 6. Only the standalone technologies were added in Java 6.

Update3: It comes out that 'Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism' is still used.

Update4: It comes out that this bug is very hard to reproduce. My simple examples at some point just started compiling :(

Update5: I just created some code that consistently reproduces the bug. I'll write it in a new entry to be cleaner.

Update6: I fixed coloring and finished the new article on the bug.

I'm using JAX-WS.
When I'm generating stuff for a web service I generate the jaxws package in a 'gen' source folder.
I don't need the compiled stuff so I generate it to a temp folder that I don't care about.

It comes out that I do have to care about that folder because yesterday I got an obscure error:


This error has only 1 (one) hit on Google. Don't trust me?
Try this one out:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModelerException%3A+The+serviceName+cannot+be+retrieved+from+an+interface.%22

The use case in the forum has nothing to do with my environment so I cleaned up and everything worked like a charm.

I've always been unhappy with how production unready wsgen is (here).

WinMerge has great shortcuts for next/previous change, copy left/right.
It has textual comparison feature which works pretty well.

Recently I had to move 200GB from one hard-drive to another.
It was imperative to make sure everything was copied successfully.

Using a binary comparison tool would take a really long time. So I only check the total file size of all files copied and the number of files.
I tried copying these 200GB files several times and never succeeded. I was too lazy or busy to investigate until today when I got really pissed off.

It comes out that the difference comes from thumbs.db files.

Thumbs.db is a thumbnail cache used by Windows XP and Windows 2k3 Server.

How to stop the creation of these files:

1. Click Start
2. Double-click Control Panel
3. Double-click Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab
5. Check off the circle next to Do not cache thumbnails
6. Click the Ok button

Ctrl + Num = switch through tabs. Useful.

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Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin

In Bulgarian:
Този, който е готов да пожертва свободата заради сигурността, не заслужава нито едно от двете.
Бенджамин Франклин

I accentally went to http://www.gaijin.at/.
The weird part is that when one presses "English" (since it's in German) it goes to:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&langpair=de|en&u=http://www.gaijin.at/index.php
I didn't know that Google can translate whole web sites.

The translation seems to be pretty good.
The site look&feel is exactly the same.

Very good thing.

Бях си казал, че повече с глупости няма да се занимавам.

Но, бях отново опроверган мислейки си, че вече най-големите тъпотии от банки съм ги видял. Особено след тъпотиите на Първа инвестиционна банка.

Сега основната ми банка е Пощенска банка: прилично е-банкиране.


Малко предистория:
Реших в сметката си вързана с дебитна карта да не държа прекалено много пари. Направих си втора (някакъв тъп влог) и я вързах с е-банкирането си.

Поредната олигофрения:
Оказва се, че тоя олигофренски влог не може да се управлява от е-банкирането. А като го правех изрично казах, че искам да ползвам от е-банкирането си.
Другите видове можели, но точно моя не може. И се оказва, че имам сметката, но точно като се опитам да превеждам - не може.

Естествено грешката се вижда от някакво забито меню, на самия трансфер не я пише.

Няколко часа се опитвах да се свържа на официалния им телефон - или заето или никой не вдига. Звънях и на други телефони - или не се вдигат или все ми се казва - не мога да помогна.

Писах им два имейла - чак на втория след 2 часа ми отговориха и даже ми се обадиха.
Като ми обясниха каква е хавата, естествено ги питам как да го реша сега проблема си? Те - ами отивате до някой клон. И сега аз ще трябва да се вдигна в работно време и да ходя до олигофренския им клон. Те естествено не са виновни и нищо не могат да направят.

Естествено мога да отида и да се навикам на пиклата, която не ми е обяснила тази подробност. Но какво ще ми донесе това?

Update:
Бях в един клон на банката. Първата мацка естествено ми каза: "Ама то би трябвало да може". Явно не е наясно горката, но аз бях кратък и ясен: "Искам да говоря с някого, който знае как работи всичко" и тая има благоразумието да ме насочи към правилния човек.
Говорих си с "администраторката" (явно нещо като шефка във фронт офиса им). Първо и тя: "ама то би трябвало да работи". После "ама ние нямаме други видове влогове". Докато накрая стигнахме до "ааааааааааааааааааааа". Явно разбраха какъв е проблема.
Направиха ми нова сметка прехвърлиха ми каквото трябва. Обещаха ми до днес (04.11) на обяд всичко да е в онлайн банкирането ми и да работи.
Естествено не работеше. Към 15 часа сметката се появи, но без наличност. От предната сметка знам, че след известно време всичко сработва, но досега (почти 19) това не се е случило.
Естествено не успях да се свържа с "администтраторката", за да я питам защо лъже.
В онлайн банкирането дори се опитват да бъдат забавни:
"Сметката не е на клиент на eBank (може и да е ама още не се грижим за нея)"
Дори пунктуационни грешки имат. И това банка. И кои сте вие, дето се "грижите" за нея? Обгрижихте я добре.

Въпроси към Пощенска:
Защо лъжете? Това е непрофесионално.
Толкова ли е трудно да си намерите качествени хора? Аз ви опознах системата за 24 часа и последния път като бях във ваш офис, я познавах по-добре от служителите ви.
Защо не си вдигате проклетите телефони?! Това е непрофесионално.
Защо олигофренския ви влог (с гръмкото име "мега") не може да се управлява онлайн?
Ако беше кредит и трябваше да го погасявам сигурно един ден закъснение щяхте през носа да ми го изкарате?

Оправданието:
Естествено пиклата ще каже: "Ама да сте питали". Common sense, скъпа, common sense е да ми кажеш за тая подробност.

Изводът:
Още една олигофренска банка, която не струва. Услугата ѝ е скапана.
Трябва ли да имам 5 дебитни карти с 10 сметки вътре?!
Трябва ли да си намеря някой пенсионер, който да ходи всеки ден и да ми е един вид "електронното банкиране"?
Трябва ли просто да се науча да си държа парите кеш, защото няма ни една банка, която просто да работи?
Update (към извода):
Стоят ми парите в банка - банката ги използва.
В разплащателна сметка по-скоро аз плащам (лихва няма, таксите са меко казано високи). Вие ми вземате парите, аз плащам?
Във влога уж получавам някаква келява лихва, но нищо не работи и тия олигофрени ми хабят време (което е в пъти по-ценно от смешната им лихва).
Често се случва тия приключения да завършат по кофти начин - аз тоя уикенд до тия пари достъп нямах.
Мисля си, че да си държиш парите в банка е тъпо, адски тъпо. Аз обиколих няколко банки, все нещо не им е наред. И обслужването - нямам думи, един долнопробен ресторант по морето има по-адекватно обслужване (поне служителите си познават ресторанта).

Въпросът:
Някой знае ли поне една професионална банка, която предлага само едно: да ми достави безупречно електронно банкиране? Не искам нито да я виждам на живо, нито да комуникирам с безумно противните лелки/какички, които знаят само едно "не сме ние виновни". Искам просто да ми се предоставят ограничен набор от услуги и те да работят 24/7.

П.П. Определено тонът ми е груб, но тия са поредните олигофрени, които ми губят времето и ми лазят по нервите.

П.П.2 И не, определено няма да пиша "молби" или "оплаквания". Отговорът ще е в стил Мтел: "ми откраднахме ти 100 лева за половин мегабайт интернет, ама да не си блял, целият ни бизнес план се гради на измами, ти кво искаш - да спрем да работим ли?"

By default enlarging Java VM's heap space happens via "-Xms128m -Xmx512m".

How do we tell Tomcat 6 about it? They say via the CATALINA_OPTS variable (which is shared by all Tomcat instances on that machine). Or even via JAVA_OPTS (all java programs would use these settings).

But what if I want to set these options only to a specific Tomcat instance?
Google couldn't answer that.

I could mess with the startup scripts, which is not a good idea.

The best solution I found is to set the variable (CATALINA_OPTS) only on the console instance that is to start the Tomcat. This variable is not visible to other instances.
This works on windows - because of the temporary variables.

I had a 2GB MemoryStick Duo Pro left from the last phone and I didn't know what do with it.
ReadyBoost was a nice feature to try out (Vista uses the flash card to boot faster).
The card was small in size so it wasn't a problem to keep it always in. I rarely if never use the card reader.

Now Vista starts even slower. The last boot it stood at least a minute on the login screen and hdd went crazy.
After my desktop appeared the it took a few more minutes for the hdd to calm down.

I'm waisting so much time complaining about it. I won't write for Vista anymore.

So I choose to do something on my laptop (Vista) and just when I start doing it there's this annoying window - you have to restart - and it's bugging you once and a while. If you choose to ignore it long enough, it'll restart the machine right in the middle of a movie. How frustrating is that?!

There's an XP machine I have that has a service running. The service MUST be up all the time. The choice of operating system was not mine. So the XP updates and then restarts without restarting the service. How frustrating is that?!

I know that Vista and XP are end-user OSs, but how can Vista restart while I'm using it?!