Vancouver Feb 2009 Full Beach View

Check out this view from Downtown Vancouver’s English Bay… What a view…

Here is a link to full size pic (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawouds/3317413222/in/photostream/)

VNC to Ubuntu via Chicken of the VNC = Black Screen

I'm running a headless server with Ubuntu on it. On my Mac OSX I try to connection using Chicken of the VNC and i keep getting black screens.

The fix is to use a tsclient like http://desktopecho.com/tsclientx/ It requires to X11 to be installed. But it works.

Log Sping WebServiceMessage body to Log4J Logger

If you have a WebServiceMessage object and you have a need to log that message to a Log4j Logger this is some quick code to do just that...

Log log = LogFactory.getLog("LoggerName");
WebServiceMessage message = wsMessage;
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
message.writeTo(os);
log.error(os.toString());

Mac: VMware Fusion 2 is a free downloadable upgrade

I been a user of VMWare Fusion on my Mac. While talking to a co-worker i was told that VMWare 2.x is much better... then i was told it was a free update... and IT IS...

Download your free copy of this upgrade at http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/ so far it is good, and i was told you can increase the side of the VM Desk space which is something i wanted to do for a long time... check out... but i think you need to have an account before you can download the software.