Quinn's Quixotic Quagmire - programming tag

Upgrading Tomcat from 5.5.20 to 6.0.18

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:56:00 GMT

I recently upgraded tomcat from 5.5.20 to 6.0.18. It went smoothly because I practiced on another environment. I have a bunch of virtual hosts, so my config isn't just plain vanilla. There were a few things I had to adjust:

Classpath differences in the way 6.0 does things vs. 5.5
I set org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false because several webapps aren't conforming to the jsp 2.0 spec in this regard.
The cgi servelet is privileged, so instead of enabling it in tomcat's global web.xml, it is better to configure each app that needs it in it's own web.xml and set privileged=true in the context config for that webapp.

Using a Hauppauge PVR-150 to capture OTA DTV

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:47:00 GMT

So, this whole digital tv switchover has caused me to do some work. Here is a detailed description of what I had to do to get my PVR-150 to play nicely with an RCA DTA800.

C Class web page archive

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:13:00 GMT

Here is an archive of a web site I put together for a C programming class I taught years ago.

http://www.yanceyweb.com/quinn/cclass-archive