This is a story of a well meaning default causing more problems than a randomly picked value. Read it if you are running BEA Weblogic cluster on a switched network, especially with a CISCO switch. Read it even if you do not run WLS cluster, but are interested in TCP voodoo. Weblogic server is a combination of many technologies. Quite a number of these technologies used to require a dedicated professional to configure and maintain.

Scopo - a wearable display from Mitsubishi - is not going to be here until at least next year. I am really looking forward to it being available for public. It would go long way towards making wearable computing a reality. They do not say what resolution it is, but the projection is equivalent to 10-inch screen. I wonder if it is good enough to actually write programs. Surely, I could fit a VI session into it, even if it is at 24x80 screen size.

The article on Hacknot talks about testers and the grief developers face from them due to incorrect problem reporting practices. Of course developers do exactly the same things when they are the ones reporting problems. I am talking about Technical Support requests. When a developer (or an operations personnel, or - worse yet - an operations manager) calls with a support case, they do exactly the same things that Hacknot described for the testers.

The news of IBM releasing the next version of WebSphere real soon now are propagating through the websites. As a Weblogic support person, it was interesting for me to see what new supportability features were included by IBM. Unfortunately, the details are very vague. From the general description (failover, failure detection and recovery, etc), it sounded like the features we already had in Weblogic for a while. Some we even had for a very long while (e.

Sometimes the only good outcome of a post is to provoke somebody else to do one better. Seemed that I had caused exactly that. About a week ago, I wrote about extending podcasting loop using Windows Scripting Host and IPod’s COM interface. In a comment, Scyro had written about disliking my approach and explained how to achieve the same effect using the smart playlists instead. I have read his article and actually like his approach more than my own.