Monthly Archives: December 2010

FYI: AT&T 8 is very considerate and silently blocks things that could hurt you

OK, this is after a number of brain numbing days searching for a problem on and off, it appears that At&t knows best about how to protect you from the internets. Thanks but I will go back to an earlier version that did not have this great and so useful “feature”.

So the moral of the story is don’t use your computer remotely via RDP and use the VPN for some reason that is bad? If anyone knows how to circumvent this total and utter crap, please drop me a line.

Here is a post where a supposed At&t rep replies that this is working as designed, I think that this would be a more palatable answer if they did anything to make this visible, at this point my frustration is the only thing that is left after this ordeal, no logging, notification, or indication that this is going on at all, it just happens silently in the background… wtf

http://attnetclient.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=480

Useful Update:

Looks like you can disable this crud at install time with a secret option to a silent MSI install, I was not able to do this on AT&T 8.2 so I am going back to 6.9 where this suck didn’t exist.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=191565

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C:\> msiexec /i agnc_vpn.msi FIREWALL_STATE=DISABLED

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Building a closet that does not suck, like those stupid wire things do…

So with my closets officially gutted of their original white wire closet suck racks I am ready to start and get this party started right. First my in house contractor/girlfriend filled the newly formed holes in the walls then she painted them so we have a clean canvas to start with.

I found an excellent sizing guide at http://www.doityourself.com, this is some crucial info to make sure you are planning in the correct proportions:

Five men’s suit coats:12″ wide, 38″ long
Six men’s shirts (on hangers)12″ wide, 38″ long
Man’s shirt (folded)8″ wide, 14″ long
Man’s pants (on straight hangers)44″ long
Man’s pants (folded on hangers)27″ long
Man’s dress hat:6″ x 11″
Man’s shoes:9″ wide, 12″ long
Woman’s dress:68″ long
Woman’s robe:52″ long
Woman’s dress:50″ long
Woman’s jacket:36″ long
Woman’s blouse (on hanger)34″ long
Woman’s blouse (folded)10″ wide, 13″ long
Woman’s skirt:36″ long
Woman’s shoes:6″ wide, 9-1/2″ long
Sweater (folded):10″ wide, 14″ long
Boots:9″ wide, 12″ deep, 14″ high

– http://www.doityourself.com/stry/h2addaclosetorganize

To start with.

Reference/Related:

* http://www.diyadvice.com/diy/built-ins/storage/closet-organizer/

WebSphere and RQM on Suse ES 11 x64

Both installs are pretty straight forward, but if you are using the default ulimits you will run into a problem for an application server with the isclite and query applications deployed as well.

You will see an Exception for java.io: too many files open

Raising the ulimit will help in the current shell, but if you intend to do anything but testing you will want to raise these level permanently. In Suse that means modifying the /etc/security/limits.conf files, this should do the trick:

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* - nofile 4096
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Compiling the BuildForge source agent on Suse 11 x64

Install pam-devel try and start xinetd, if it fails you will need to comment out some lines in the generated install script to force it through.

http://demeter.uni-regensburg.de/SLES11-SDK-x64/DVD1/suse/x86_64/

http://www.dawal.org/index.php/tools-a-products/rationalbuildforge/34-buildforge-71-agent-install-on-redhat

People are crappy enough drivers in TN on a clear day nevermind when the roads are bad….

Capture of Tennessean Live Traffic View -  13-Dec-2010

Under all those dots there is a city...

Check out the map for yourself: http://services.tennessean.com/services.aspx/traffic

No this is not a fluke, check out last years version: http://seanwilbur.posterous.com/nashville-has-some-awful-awful-drivers