Archive | March, 2006

Serving JSP pages through IIS using Tomcat

UPDATE – This article was written originally in 2002. The main concept of using Tomcat to handle the JSP pages under-the-hood is still the same and this page is probably still useful, however, there are now products available to do this for you such as JspISAPI (which offers a free lite version). If you want [...]

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Linix Drivers / Modules

Linux refers to drivers sometimes as modules. Generally root permission is required to use any of these commands: lsmod = lists all modules rmmod = remove a module modprob = add a module drivers are located (usually) /lib/modules PCMCIA devices are controlled by the card manager /etc/pcmcia.conf Network Devices: ifconfig = utility for network iwconfig [...]

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Mandrake Linix 10 / Remote Desktop / Terminal Service / VNC

I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to remotely control my Mandrake 10 box as I do other Windows servers using Remote Desktop. I found that VNC seems to be the primary method of doing this. Only after compiling and configuring VNC server, though, did I realize that Mandrake 10 [...]

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set php allow_call_time_pass_reference in .htaccess

I just spent about an hour trying to figure this out, but when you have a php application that requires call time pass reference to be enabled, you can set in the .htaccess file.  The trick on some systems is that it must be set to “1″ and not “on” as is indicated on the [...]

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Could not load type Foo from assembly NHibernate

This error indicates that the class could not be found when NHibernate is initializing. The key here is “from assembly NHibernate” The reason I was getting this error is because I didn’t realize that you have to specify not only the name of the class (including the namespace prefix), but also the assembly name after [...]

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