Note to self: If you create a JToolBar, do not mix Containers and Components. Either add Containers OR Components. That's an exlusive or. Otherwise (at least) on OSX your toolbar will layout the elements with crazy insets and position them like a crackhead.

Have you ever stumbled upon the situation that you wanted to deliver MouseEvents to parts of your SWING application? I ran into the situation, that I needed to deliver a MouseEvent to a JComponent that is included within a JGraph application. If this all sounds a bit confusing to you, don't read on...

I've never really used NFS before. So I decided to give it a go on my new debian server. After installing openvpn both on the server and the client I of course needed to put the nfs stuff onto my server. Installed nfs-common and nfs-user-server, tweaked /etc/defaults/portmap to bind the portmapper to one ip, adjustet /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/exports and watched the syslog while trying to connect:

Aug 15 02:13:50 ffm-root58 mountd[30063]: NFS mount of / attempted from 10.2.0.6
Aug 15 02:13:50 ffm-root58 mountd[30063]: / has been mounted by 10.2.0.6
Aug 15 02:13:50 ffm-root58 nfsd[30061]: NFS request from eisenuschi originated on insecure port, psychoanalysis suggested

Semi-True. A psychoanalysis might be a good thing, but / hasn't really been mounted by 10.2.0.6:

Eisenuschi:~ root# mount 10.2.0.1 test
mount_nfs: bad MNT RPC: RPC: Timed out

Not mounted. Alright.  Adding "insecure" to the /etc/exports entry fixed this. Server mounted, Jannis happy. I then asked google about tips on how to map uids between server and client, when darwin assured me, that it's nfs-implementation is more broken than working (click to enlarge):

Where's my remote debugger? Samba, here I come! 

Ever wondered why lighttpd (or as I used to type: lighthttpd) won't accept an array as value for server.bind? I tried something like this:

    server.bind = ( "62.93.205.27", "62.93.205.28" )

For some reason this was not implemented in 1.3, and this is the way to do it:

    server.bind = "62.93.205.27"
     $SERVER["socket"] == "62.93.205.28" {} 

Taken from a trac ticket.

Just a quick shorty to tell you I'm alive. What happened, in short: Server hardware went byebye some weeks ago, s9y.org and supersized.org were emergency-moved to a small backup machine at my provider, the new server was ordered. New server arrived one week later, but was doa: dead on arrival. After an odissey of ordering new parts, another new server was ordered from another company. Since yesterday it's in the network operating center. The mailsystem has already been recovered, but is not performing any spamfiltering yet: Keep it comin'.

The site www.jannis.to (sounds familiar?) is the first one that is running on the new hardware. I've switched over to lighttpd together with hardened php. I hope everythings runs more or less schmoof now, if you note something funky, let me know.

That's it for now, Compilerbau-Klausur tomorrow, plus three more tests next week. Expect s9y.org and supersized.org to be migrated to this new server within the next 14 days. I don't know yet.