Archives for: February 2009

Installing Tomcat as a service under windows

February 25th, 2009
The Apache Tomcat instructions on this are here but they are both worse than useless and totally acurate. It starts we the sentence: This section of the documentation applies to procrun 1.0, and is now obsolete Great! Now what. There is no link to… more »

Where is Outlook Express?

February 16th, 2009
Seems like an obvious one, but I keep forgetting where the OutLook Express executable is. So as this is the brain extension, I'll add it here for all time. c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe Once you have loaded it in, you can switch on (or… more »

Parallel line checker board and chinese writing illusions

February 3rd, 2009
An interesting illusion with a checker board. Are those lines parallel? http://hcpcrew.at/pix/illu_003.gif The second one is a bit rude: http://hcpcrew.at/pix/chinese.jpg more »

Invalid ActiveMQ Schema Name Space

February 1st, 2009
Newer versions of ActiveMQ have support for XML name space schema declarations to allow easier configuration of container beans. Adding the following XMLNS declaration to the beans container will allow you to use ActiveMQ's amq name space. <beans… more »