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May 30, 2007 • 04:27 0
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May 26, 2007 • 19:17 0
Firefox tab groups extension
Hi all,
do you (as I) end up with lots and lots of tabs in Firefox that you dont want to close for any reason? In my case it could be the effect of serious browsing opening new tabs for a lot of links or the fact that Firefox restores you previous sessions and tabs newer get closed at all.
I could really recommend all of you (fitting the above profile) to use the Tab Group extension, it allows you to group tabs into other tabs, making it possible for you to have hundreds of tabs 
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May 24, 2007 • 19:40 1
IS02 in WebSphere MQ clustered environment
In my current assignment I’m architecting “a version two” of my customers corporate ESB.
These core components that make up the actual ESB runtime:
- WebSphere Message Broker 6.0.0.3
- WebSphere MQ 6.0.2.1
As a part of the architectural work I needed to look into the management possibilities of the components. I’ve been working with both WMQ 5.3 and WBIMB 5.0 before but newer the 6.0’s.
What I wanted to do, if possible, was to use the IS02 support pack in favor the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit to administer the broker domains. The Toolkit is based on Eclipse and includes both administration and development capabilities (a huge overhead for pure operational tasks).
The runtime setup as follows (BK=Broker, CM=Configuration Manager, QM=Queue Manager):
- Server1: BK1/QM1 + CM/QM2
- Server2: BK2/QM3
- QM1, QM2 and QM3 is part of Cluster1
Objectives: Use IS02 to connect to CM (through QM2) and administer BK1 and BK2 from Workstation1.
Result:
IS02 (v2 – the current one) doesn’t work in a clustered environment (one without XMIT queues and sender/receiver (non-cluster) channels. The senders (QM2 to QM1 and QM2 to QM3) channel is needed on QM2 for the tooling to display the brokers. The receiver corresponding receiver channels are needed to administer the brokers (sending messages basically)
Well, I set up the XMIT’s and channel’s and tried again. The brokers and configuration manager is nicely shown in the IS02 eclipse plugin. You can do the things you can expect like deploying (to multiple execution groups “concurrently”) , starting, stopping and removing flows etc.
Still some things doesn’t work as expected:
- Message Set’s can be removed from a broker but that isn’t reflected in the UI (need restart)
- The configuration to connect to the Configuration Manager vanish the moment the Eclipse environment is restarted.
Based on what I’ve heard at IBM the problems should hopefully be fixed in the upcoming release.
• 18:45 0
Evolution and Exchange
At work we’re using MS Exchange as our groupware system (as everybody else). I’ve been running Outlook configured to access Exchange over HTTPS for a couple of months, works like a charm.
At home I manage most of my Internet access using a laptop loaded with Kubuntu. I can’t see that I’m to happy about MS Exchange Webaccess running Firefox, the UI is really tied to Internet Explorer. Today I decided to look into the Linux options. I already knew that Evolution had Exchange support but I has always guessed that is was the non HTTP variant of the exchange protocols, obviously I was wrong the Exchange support is actually the HTTP one only.
I’m glad to say that my Evolution – Exchange setup works really good.
• 06:15 0
How to Evacuate 873 People from an Airbus A380
I stubled accross this blog early this morning.
Follow the worth a look link, hopefully you will be just as amused as me looking at this propaganda movie, directed by Lufthansa.
//N
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