Installing skype

I tried to install skype yesterday. It's a nightmare.

1. www.skype.com
2. Follow "Get skype" link
3. Follow "Get skype for windows" link
4. Follow "Download skype" (3rd page and it still does not start!!!)
5. Site says something like: "You must login/register" WAT?!?
6. Forgotten your password?
7. Follow mail link
8. Enter new password
9. I enter something like "ExtrAComp1ic4t3dPassvvorD1234"
10. Site says something like: "Your password is too weak"
11. I enter "ExtrAComp1ic4t3dPassvvorD1"
12. Site says something like:"You can download now."

gg skype

Excellent Netty introduction

I'm trying Netty these days and I find it very nice to work with.

I came upon this fine introduction about Netty.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space problem

We had a few these days.
Came upon this nice article on how to solve them.
http://blogs.oracle.com/fkieviet/entry/how_to_fix_the_dreaded

In the meantime we just increased it.

JConsole on a remote machine

If you want to monitor your app on a remote machine use this when you start it:

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8888
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=putYourAppRemoteIPHere

Funny 404 page

Turn your sound on.
System is down!

More nice thoughts

why the lucky stiff

From Drop Box

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps