Yesterday my homepage experienced about 12 hours of downtime due to the hosting server host.hostean.com being unavailable. Not a good thing, but always good to figure out that it is not my fault. Have not seen any explanations of what the root cause was, but as I could see MySQL was struggling pretty hard.
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Morning view from our living room
Elin took some pictures here the other day.
Imperial State Electric in concert yesterday
Yesterday me, Espen and Sigurd went to see Imperial State Electric live in concert at John Dee with their lead singer Nicke Royale, formerly known from the great band Hellacopters. Really love the energy they created on stage, very limited small talk in between songs, play one then on to the next – just as it should be. Just like when Nicke performed together with Hellacopters at Hove some years ago, they played about five songs, then he said “Tjänare Norje”, and kept on playing!!! How cool is that??
Serena Ryder – Is it O.K
Serena Ryder, bought by chance, mostly because she did a cover of Bruce Springsteen and his song Racing In the Street. A bit country I would describe it as, kinda like Melissa Etheridge maybe. Elin did really like the cover art on the inside of the cd cover
Mac OS X: Yet another update on the issue of corrupted home folder
After successfully getting access to all my files using the install DVD I did a reinstall. When finished I created a user with the same user id as before. Then logged on and became a bit confused by the fact that it had the same wallpaper as before the crash. Turned out that the reinstall had not deleted anything in the old home folder, and when creating an identical userid I got access to all the old files.
A bit surprised by the fact that a complete reinstall is not really what I thought it should be, but hey…who cares right now!!!
Mac OS X: No need to kick it….yet!
Must admit that I’m still mad because our Macbook Pro decided to crash and not give me access to all our files, but at least I’ve just found a workaround.
Using the Install DVD, insert it and reboot while holding the c-button (makes your Macbook boot from CD/DVD). When the menu appears, from Utilities choose Terminal. With root privileges you have full access to the disk. Then insert a memory stick with enough space and voila. You will find both your memory stick and your hard drive in the folder /Volumes
Using copy (cp) you can copy all the files missing, and a voila…just reinstall the whole thing…and then up and running again.
Still pissed that the home folder got corrupted, but at least I managed to save all the files which I did not have a backup of (I rule!!!)
Fu Manchu in concert
Yesterday Espen, Sigurd and I went to see Fu Manchu in concert at Rockefeller. Must admit I was very tired when leaving home, and sort of regretted that I had said to them that we should go out, have a few beers and then try to get tickets for the concert. But as soon as they started playing all regrets flew away…Fu Manchu plays the type of music that you are not able to play in any other way than very loud. With that in mind, Fu Manchu in concert is my best experience ever with their music – pure stoner rock…
Me headbanging and Sigurd having a good time
Before the concert Sigurd asked what kind of music Fu Manchu plays, and I ended up saying “Rock’n roll, but not feelgood like ‘I love rock n roll’ with Joan Jett…” but I must admit I felt very good when they played 🙂
And Sverre: You missed all three: King of the Road, Mongoose and Weird Beard …
Another funny thing, Elin thought I said “Manu Chao”, so she was a bit shocked when I played a song by Fu Manchu, not what she had expected
From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle II
A bit late, but now I have done another ten days, mostly delayed because of Anders being sick for a whole week. But now I’ve done yet another 360 kilometers. So now I would be passing Dovreskogen (Google Maps), where I could rest at Dovreskogen Gjestegård (Not much else there to mention here…). Been ten days without any incidents to report, no crashes or something like that. Have used my new phone which has GPS to confirm that the distance is pretty much 18 kilometers each way. Started using the speed sensor on my Polar 725X, but it is not accurate at all, so I was a bit afraid that the distance was much shorter for a while.
In my first post I mentioned Tveitablokkene, and this time I must mention a building which is not much to look at, but the name is quite funny. Located at Tvetenveien 30 you will find “Gresshoppa“, or “Grasshopper”. I know my friend Kent is well aware of the building, since Micromonsters have their shop there.
So now, 20 days biking to work this year, 720 kilometers.
Lumber jack, yet again
Been out at Vestreng this weekend, and spent 4-5 hours out collecting fire wood. Very nice day, both yesterday and today. Created a short film using the video camera on my new cell phone, the Nokia E72. The tractor is, as the movie title implies a Ford 4000, mounted with equipment for doing forest tending.
[video:youtube:ko5het5YB2s]Things I do on a Saturday evening: Installing WAS CE on Ubuntu
Spent about an hour or so in total this evening installing WebSphere Community Edition on my own laptop where I run Ubuntu 9.10. Needed an application server to deploy the web applications I create when trying to teach myself how to do Java development. The first try was to install Tomcat 6, which was quite easy using the package manager. But after I had done some thinking I turned to WAS CE instead, why not, since WebSphere is the product I know best (beeing well aware of the fact that under the hood in WAS CE, you will, among various open source projects, find Tomcat as well).
The installation was quite easy, just followed the Quick Start-guide combined with the Setup Troubleshooting (Prerequisites for Ubuntu, read this one first!!). After that I just had some issues with getting WAS CE to understand where to find the correct Java installation, but this guide saved me combined with me just realizing that I have to run it as root. Guess I could avoid that, but who cares, it is my own laptop.
Anyhow, this is the admin console, so the next step will be to deploy applications from Eclipse, but that will be another day…
@Update: Not a problem at all to get rid of the root:root
> su
> cd /opt
> chown -R myuser:mygroup IBM/
> exit
> cd IBM/WebSphere/CeAppServer/bin
> ./start-server.sh
…server started…