July 2009

16 Jul 2009

Goodnight Sun...

By jmccabe
personal: 
Sun

Sun Microsystems Says Shareholders OK Oracle Buy. A chapter, and one that certainly had an interesting beginning and middle, in computer and Internet history is coming to a close. It was interesting to be a part of the decline.

Goodnight Sun. I hope all of the talented friends and colleagues of mine still with you have a soft landing.

17 Jul 2009

Open Web Server building on MacOS X!

By jmccabe
technical: 
Open Web Server
mac

Meena has done the heavy lifting to make Open Web Server compile and run on MacOS X! Fricken sweet!

17 Jul 2009

Sun Web Server on Fedora 11

By jmccabe
technical: 
Sun Web Server
Fedora

I'm in the process of upgrading a server from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. "This should be no problem" I thought because, in my heart, I'm an optimist. No, really! I totally am. So just imagine my surprise when after what appeared to be a really smooth update I tried to start my (already installed) Sun Java System Web Server. Was I greeted with "Server ready for requests"? Nope. Instead I was greeted with the wildly unhelpful errors: