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Anarchy in Åmot – Sturle Brustad

My latest book is “Anarchy in Åmot” written by Sturle Brustad.

Good reading I must say, enjoyed the whole book, but must admit that I kinda disliked the ending though, but if I said why it would be a spoiler so no can do. But even so, I would recommend it as well worth spending the time reading it.

If you where to read it, spend some time listening to the music first, it would give you a better time reading the book

Moon above Oslo

Giving yesterdays try a second chance, this time out on the balcony setting the camera on the railing to avoid movements. Tested various shutter speed and exposure times, and have used Picasa to make a movie out all the pictures.

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Morning picture

Woke up quite early this morning due to the pain from my shoulder and got to see the moon just over the horizont. Not that easy to take the picture with only one arm and 30 seconds of shutter speed…so here you can see Oslo by night (morning) while moving the camera.

I’ve fractured my skapula

On the way to work today I had an incident with a car, resulting in a fractured skapula. At first I was afraid that I had to do a surgery, but luckily I do not have to. Have some pain right now, but trying to use the pc just to make the time go by. Currently using the MacBook, and thanks to the mousepad I’m able to use the mouse. Quite sure I need a day or two before being able to use my Lenovo, the mousepad stinks compared to the Mac.

Must stay calm for a week, then I’m allowed to start using the arm again.

Up yours fuc#”#$ spammers!!!

The past few weeks there has been a boost in comment spamming in my blog. Quite annoying when I have to delete 5 to 10 spam comments each day. So I decided to disable comments on old posts, but it was not as straight forward as I wanted. It is possible to disable pr. post, but with 10 years of blogging doing it manually is no option. But luckily I found this SQL statement

UPDATE evo_items__item SE T post_comment_status = "closed" WHERE NOW() > DATE_ADD(post_datecreated, INTERVAL 10 DAY)  

Solution found on the B2Evolution forum. Must admit that even though it is a one liner, it goes way above my head 🙂

What if your WebSphere application server won’t start?

There might be several reasons for that, most of them revealing themselves by information in the startServer.log. But earlier today when trying to start the deployment manager it just would not start, saying that I had to look into the startServer.log, but even if I tried several times no new info was to be found. “ps -ef | grep java” revealed no WebSphere processes running, so still no clues. So I gave up and wanted to create a PMR, thus needing to zip the logs-folder, but that process failed. So then I ended up issuing a df-command, realizing that due to some previous heap dumps there was no more disk space left, which caused the dmgr not being able to start. Cleared the disk and voila, back on track.

Then later I got a problem when applications would not install, the error message was

WASX7114E: Cannot create temporary file in directory “null”

Found this technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21300016 which mentions the same message, but the solution is simpler than in this case. In fact the /tmp-folder was full with dump-files as well. So when cleaned up, application installation worked as a charm again.