Author Archives: Jonathan Tappan

What Happens When an Air Traffic Controller is Asleep?

Philip Greenspun has a surprising answer.

Philip Greenspun on the Federal Budget Deal:

“We have a family that is spending $38,200 per year. The family’s income is $21,700 per year. The family adds $16,500 in credit card debt every year in order to… Read more »

Sony Pushes the Envelope

Orin Kerr eviscerates Sony’s legal maneuvers against the people who broke the PS3’s encryption: I realize the complaint characterizes the defendants as hackers, and the CFAA is supposed to be… Read more »

Evil Password Change

..or at least an extremely secure password change method. (Actual production code.) UPDATE: It’s hard to believe that this code isn’t malicious, but it’s just possible that it was put… Read more »

aLinks with WordPress 3.0

I have updated my original aLinks post with a version that works with WP 3.0.

Parsing ISO 8601 Date Format in Java

These are dates in a format like “2010-05-17T09:30:47-04:00” optionally including date, time and time zone, which are commonly found in XML documents. In .NET you can just use DateTime.Parse(), but… Read more »

Solving Port Conflicts in Windows

Suppose that you start a server application like JBoss and get an error message like this one: 14:13:51,561 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Start: name=jboss.remoting:protocol=rmi,service=JMXConnectorServer state=Create mode=Manual requiredState=Installed java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port… Read more »

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