How to calculate CRC32 by hand?

By | November 7, 2015

Introduction A 32 bit Cyclical Redundancy Check is a means of error detection in data transmission. There are plenty of online calculators that will help you automatically calculate the CRC32 of a given value. What I wanted to do was to understand how it is calculated. So what better way than to try and replicate a… Read More »

My favourite error: exec_tty error: Cannot run program: Unknown reason

By | November 4, 2015

Well, almost my favourite, but it is pretty cryptic to say the least. All I was trying to do was run the default Hello World C program after a fresh install of Eclipse. (4.4 in this case) on Ubuntu 14.04 After a bit of searching, this post nailed it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11390163/running-ubuntu-eclipse-c-helloworld I was trying to execute… Read More »

How to run bash scripts in Mule ESB

By | September 29, 2015

Intro I wanted to figure out how to run bash scripts in Mule ESB so my first point of call? Google. Google returned a few useful results. Primarily: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13039604/running-shell-scripts-from-mule-esb and http://mule.1045714.n5.nabble.com/Can-I-run-a-shell-script-from-Mule-Jython-td2658688.html Being new to this I couldn’t make out much but 2 things stuck out. Groovy and “ls”.excute(). Armed with these 2 clues, I tried… Read More »

What to do when IBM Cast Iron is non responsive?

By | September 15, 2015

If the IBM Websphere Cast Iron Web Management Console becomes non responsive, then the command line will be your best friend. SSH into the appliance using Putty if in windows or the standard terminal in Linux and run the various system commands from the link to the docs below. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGR73_7.0.0/com.ibm.wci.cli.doc/CLI_system_commands.html?lang=en Useful commands: system clean running… Read More »