Archive for July, 2010

Aliasing Loopback on OSX

aka…how to make it possible to use 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, … on your Mac. This post comes from a need I had to start cassandra in multiple instances on a single Mac (testing a cluster configuration out), and failing to do so. Previously on Linux, I had configured multiple instances to bind to 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2 [...]

July 26, 2010 В· polesen В· No Comments
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A Non-Blocking Process.waitFor()

When calling java.lang.Process.waitFor() the call will block (wait()) until the process actually exits. The waitFor() call is blocking, which is pretty irritating sometimes, for instance when #&%€! wine decides to hang itself, hereby stealing my tomcat execute threads and database connections in production Well, here’s a quick and dirty solution to creating a non-blocking waitFor() [...]

July 16, 2010 В· polesen В· One Comment
Tags:  В· Posted in: Programming