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Save Youtube flash videos and more

This is the second best Firefox add-on, ever! It shares the top spot with the other add-on previously mentioned:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5258

It has a very dull name, “Embedded Objects”, but despite this little marketing fallacy it really is one awesome utility.

Now that Youtube increased their video quality, it also means file sizes went up and that my computer [...]

Ubuntu is horrible, part 666

Seriously getting fed up with this piece of crap Operating System called Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Not one month goes by without me having to battle yet another failure situation. That’s not what I call a good system to maintain. Maybe it’s my own fault for not running software that is at least 2 generations old…?

Without my knowledge, [...]

Tomcat + mod_jk + AJP + munin-node woes

My Tomcat access graphs for munin had stopped logging data and I set out to find out why it isn’t working anymore. After some debugging, I concluded it must have been because of AJP/APR/libtcnative-1 changes I did just recently (oh don’t we all love these silly abbreviations and cryptic package names…)

Tomcat logging with Munin

I [...]

Tomcat, libtcnative-1 and Ubuntu

Doing same mistakes over and over again is no fun. Faintly knowing what the fault is, and applying a fix to get a solution but still not rectifying your problem, that’s even less fun.

During Tomcat startup, I get this informative message:

org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production [...]

Ubuntu eth0 changed into eth1 or eth2, eth3 etc.

So are you running an Ubuntu based linux distro (I’m running Kubuntu).

Did your network configuration change eth0 into something else, for example eth1. I managed to get up to eth4, and after 2 reboots after a system reconfiguration, it wanted me to use eth5 then eth6… the interface card (NIC) is built-in into my motherboard, [...]