Blue Screen Haiku

Scott S NelsonLeave a comment

Ed note: This was posted on my old site in 2004. Every time you think we are making progress in computing, read this 🙂

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages:

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
————————-
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
————————–
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
—————————–
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
——————————
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
——————————–
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
———————————
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
———————————
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
——————————–
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
———————————
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
———————————
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
———————————
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
———————————
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
——————————–
Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.
———————————
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

If you found this interesting, please share.

ClassNotFoundException for PageFlowContextListener

Scott S NelsonLeave a comment

I was a bit surprised to run across this issue for the first time in a 10.3.0 installation.  According to a post on OTN, it is caused by the actual Beehive library not added correctly in config.xml. However, when I ran across it, it was a different library (the sample projects) that were missing, but the same error occurred.

Go figure.

If you found this interesting, please share.

Dynamic Log Location for log4j

Scott S NelsonLeave a comment

I was really surprised that log4j doesn’t have any facility to set the log file location with a relative path. Hard to build a portable application if you need to set the full value of a local path. And don’t talk to me about config files, because that requires reading documentation, which is only read less than it is written.

So, if you use the standard log4j servlet approach to start your logging, you can weave in the following to set your path relative to your app:

org.w3c.dom.NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("param");;
org.w3c.dom.Node node = null;//nodes.item(0);
org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap nodeMap = null;
for(int i=0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++)
{
    node = nodes.item(i);
    nodeMap = node.getAttributes();
    if(nodeMap.getNamedItem("name")
        .getNodeValue().equals("File"))
    {
        node = nodeMap.getNamedItem("value");
        outputFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath(node.getNodeValue()));
        outPutPath = outputFile.getAbsolutePath();
        outPutPath = outPutPath.replace('', '/');
        node.setNodeValue(outPutPath);
    }
}

Then you can set the log location to outPutPath.

Enjoy 🙂

If you found this interesting, please share.

PCAnywhere and Your Firewall

Scott S NelsonLeave a comment

I’m always forgetting what ports to set for PCAnywhere use. This time I thought I’d share the link I found on PCAnywhere ports at http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/pcanywhere_ip_port_usage.htm.

Though these days I’m using TeamViewer, which has no problem with firewalls though does get filtered by some networks admins.

If you found this interesting, please share.