Meteor Shower
With support of my wife, we inspired our body to go with us. We hit the trail around 9PM. The sun had set completely, but it was not dark. Street lights were so bright at night. We didn't need to take out flashlights.
[Read More]Posted at 11:11PM Aug 12, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
Change Amadmin Password
Someone might want to change the super user amadmin's password of Access Manager (AM) 7.0 or 7.1 for various reasons. Be careful. It is tricky. If you try to change it directly on Directory Server (DS), you would find that you can not login as amadmin any more.
[Read More]Posted at 12:24PM Jul 23, 2009 by gc in Sun | Comments[1]
Firecookie, Firebug and Firefox
Updated my firefox to 3.5 yesterday, suddenly found cookie is no longer manageable on privacy tab. As I have to work on web applications, losing the ability of viewing and removing cookies is a big deal for me.
What to do? search the web as always. I found firecookie implemented by Jan Odvarko. You can go to mozilla site to add it. Note, it only works along with firebug. Good luck!
Posted at 11:03PM Jul 08, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[2]
Museum Free Days at SF Bay
Free 1st Sunday
Asian Art Museum - 200 Larkin st., San Francisco
Free 1st Tuesday
Cartoon Art Museum - 655 Mission St., San Francisco
de Young Museum - 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., San Francisco
Legion of Honor - 34th Ave & Clement St., San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - 151 Third St., San Francisco
Free 1st Wednesday
Exploratorium - 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco
Bay Area Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Rd. Sausalito, CA 94965
Free 1st Thursday
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive - 2626 Bancroft Way, 2621 Durant Ave, Berkeley
Burlingame Pez Museum - 214 California Dr., Burlingame
Free 2nd Sunday
Oakland Museum of California - 1000 Oak St., Oakland
Free 3rd Wednesday
California Academy of Sciences - 55 Music Concourse Dr., San Francisco
Posted at 04:52PM Jun 29, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
Stop asadm to ask for master password
Sun Java Application Server 9.x or glassfish command asadm asks for master password during execution. At SJAS 8.x era, asadm only asked for one password, AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD, and you can save "AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=
Someone told me to set envt variable AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD. This does not help. However, the solution is simple. You can use the same password file, but add one more line "AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD=
Posted at 12:53PM Jun 09, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
Mac OS Update Leads to Reinstall
Mac OS X 10.5.7 update caused an OS reinstall, actually should call it archive install ...
[Read More]Posted at 03:07PM May 29, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
OpenSSO 8.0 update1 Release
The first official patch of OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 - update1 - had been released. It is placed on sunsolve since last Friday May 15. The patch ID is 141655-01.
The release notes of OpenSSO 8.0 had been published on wikis.sun.com. Unlike Access Manager 7.x/6.x, OpenSSO 8.0 has no platform dependent packages, but a single war. The way of installing the patch is also changed a lot. The installation instruction is a must read. But one step is similar to old releases though, you need to run updateschema.sh script (updateschema.bat for windows) at the end.
Posted at 11:11PM May 20, 2009 by gc in Sun | Comments[0]
The complete list of the 1,300 top U.S. high schools
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Posted at 10:29AM Apr 23, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
ldapsearch on Mac OS
MacBook comes with a ldapsearch command under /usr/bin. However I could not use it to search on either Sun Directory Server 5.x/6.x or OpenDS 1.x. I used the exact same command that worked fine on Solaris/Linux box. What was wrong?
[Read More]Posted at 07:28PM Apr 11, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
Access Manager SM Cache
We all know that configuration of Access Manager (AM, called OpenSSO for 8.0 release) is very sophisticated. It is nice to have fine granular control of this product. But some configuration property names are confusing and even the comments are not clear enough. Here I just want to share what I learned recently on those properties controlling the cache SM (Service Management).
[Read More]Posted at 03:43PM Apr 09, 2009 by gc in Sun | Comments[0]
Java Class Version Problem
Class com.iplanet.services.naming.WebtopNaming has unsupported major or minor version numbers, which are greater than those found in the Java Runtime Environment version 1.5.0_15
What do you think about the above error? The first reaction would be WebtopNaming class must be compiled by JDK1.6 or later.
[Read More]Posted at 10:38PM Mar 21, 2009 by gc in Sun | Comments[0]
unable to find valid certification path to requested target
When working on a client that works with an SSL enabled server running in https protocol, you could get error 'unable to find valid certification path to requested target' if the server certificate is not issued by certification authority, but a self signed or issued by a private CMS.
Don't panic. All you need to do is to add the server certificate to your trusted Java key store if your client is written in Java. You might be wondering how as if you can not access the machine where the server is installed. There is a simple program can help you. Please download the Java program and run
% java InstallCert _web_site_hostname_
[Read More]Posted at 11:46PM Mar 17, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[3]
Kids Gamble
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As usual it didn't take too long for kids get their pocket empty. Tiger come to me excitedly, and asked for 2 more quarters. Other kids told me that he was going to win a Nintendo DS. The game is simple. With two quarters, One got 3 chances to push a button to stop the spinning tick. The base wheel marked with numbers from -3 to +3. +3 means your position goes up 3 levels, -3 of course lows you down 3 levels. The game does not reset for a new game. So Tiger is at 5th level, one short from winning. That is why kids were so exhilarated.
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Posted at 10:54AM Mar 16, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
Tooth Fairy
Eric lost tooth again. This time he lost two at the same day. That was not a surprise. What he surprised us is that he kept quiet until late in the night. He told us that he didn't want to announce it initially, because he wanted to test whether Tooth Fairy is real. His old brother had known the truth of Tooth Fairy already a few years ago. But he was not sure.
He eventually told his mom because he didn't want to lost the chance of getting a few dollars under his pillow. He is a smart boy, isn't he!
Another interesting story, Is the Tooth Fairy Real?, is worth to read.
Posted at 09:45AM Mar 09, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]
Sun Alert 249106
In Access Manager 7.1 patch2 release, due to a security bug fix, super admin user amadmin can no longer authentication to AM through LDAP auth module, the default one out of box. With 7.1p2 installed, amadmin user can only login to "DataStore" auth module. If you deploy AM7.1 in legacy mode, you would have to follow the instructions in the Sun Alert 249106 to enable DataStore auth module.
Posted at 12:12PM Jan 13, 2009 by gc in Personal | Comments[0]