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Discover MBeanInspector for WebSphere Application Server, a Java Management Extensions-based administration program for WebSphere 5. MBeanInspector is a useful testing tool; it allows users to examine MBean attributes, invoke MBean operations, and listen for MBean notifications.

Diagnose problems in WebSphere deployments using the Trace Analyzer for Websphere Application Server, a graphical environment for analyzing trace logs in detail. As WebSphere is deployed in increasingly complex environments, oftentimes the only way to solve problems is to create trace logs to show the sequence of events leading to the problem.

Independent tests show that Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware

We have already seen the apache2 installation if you want to check here Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.company1.com and www.company2.com) on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be “IP-based”, meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or “name-based”, meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address.

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Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page. This isn't a new phenomenon. People have been writing and distributing OSS software since the Internet was born. I'm always amused when people characterize it as a new-fangled thing.

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"The company Los Alamos Computers is now offering systems preinstalled with gNewSense, the fully free GNU/Linux operating system distribution..."

"gNewSense DeltaH was released today, and we are pleased to offer preconfigured Workstations, Portable Systems, ThinkCentres, Laptops, and Servers, as well as fully customized Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64, Xeon, and Opteron computers, preinstalled with the latest gNewSense GNU/Linux operating system.

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Mainstream Linux distributions for servers have caught up substantially with Unix in terms of reliability over the past year, while Windows Server 2003 downtime has risen by nearly 25 percent, according to a Yankee Group survey.

"Early results in a study that aims to track open source installations in business has seen Ubuntu and Firefox race to the top of the charts."

This is just a quick entry on how to see which software is using which ports. This comes in handy when trying to install an application server, web server, etc, and are getting errors like "port is in use".

Basically in any Unix type derivative such as Linux such (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSe, etc.), as well as Mac OS X, all that you need to type this at the command line:

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1. lsof -i

I remember there being a couple of commands in Windows which you could do this with, but it's been so long since I've used Windows on a regular basis I honestly don't remember how to do it. I do know you can use TCPView to accomplish the same thing, however.

I'm going to skip over a rant about how much Axis2 sucks in order to pass a tip on how to include Axis2 artifacts (AAR's, MAR's, etc) into an EAR file using the Maven plugin to package EAR files, maven-ear-plugin. It's a pretty obvious solution but if you're in a hurry like I've been to convert a project from a single WAR to one with several EJB's, a WAR, etc, there are a lot of new things to learn all at the same time (how classloading works with EAR's in JBoss, how to share the same Hibernate transactions between your web app and EJB's, etc), and this was one of those little things which wasn't immediately obvious. If you're seeing exceptions like these when trying to package an EAR in Maven:

I recently learned the news that Lenovo is entering the server market outside China. As the editor of Free Software Magazine, the first question that came to mind was: “Will they run Linux?”. To my surprise, the answer was nowhere to be found.

"...With pleasure we invite everybody for the official launch of the Free Knowledge Institute. The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. Inspired by the Free Software movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification, copying and distribution of knowledge..."

What are Red Hat, Novell and Canonical going to have to do in 2008 to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market?