8 Jan 2002 forrest   » (Journeyer)

Ok, my first entry for 2002 (Happy New Year, everyone)!

I drove down to Georgia with my wife to see my parents: Christmas with my mom; New Year's Eve (our 1st anniversary!) with my dad. It was a very pleasant trip.

I've got some working Perl hooks into the Ghostscript API, everything except for gsapi_set_stdio(), gsapi_set_poll(), and gsapi_set_display_callback(). It's enough to do what I need, which is catch gs errors when I'm creating pdfs, but I don't think I have time to get the GS API working under VMS, which is where I need it.

My work is pushing me in other directions. Our group, which until now has always been the VMS group, is taking over an application from another group which runs on a BEA WebLogic Application Server under Solaris.

I guess now I get to find out whether Java lives up to all the hype.

I suggested that we put together a development box with the open-source alternative to WebLogic ... which, I'm guessing, is Tomcat/JBoss. I took a spare parts box home to configure and when I swapped in the largest hard drive I had available, I found it was already a Debian "potato" boot disk. I have a bit of mucking around to make it have the appropriate drivers for its new home, but it's still a lot easier than installing from scratch (especially since this box has no cd-rom drive).

Now, I know how to reset the root password when it's unavailable. I didn't even have to use a boot floppy.

This is a good day.

Incidentally, I received a random SirCam document from Taiwan which is in Big5 Chinese encoding. I know I probably shouldn't, but I'm going to disinfect it and try to decipher it.

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