As I usually do Sunday mornings, I put on BBC Radio 2 and today I was taken aback hearing a report that the plug was pulled when Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen were ON STAGE TOGETHER in London! It’s the rooftop concert all over again.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Rewound Radio picking up the slack
Thanks go to Allan Sniffen on Rewound Radio for playing a tribute to Oldies 103 in Boston, which had been one of my radio presets, but it suffered a format change a few weeks ago. With the demise of the oldies stations on broadcast radio, thankfully there are online stations to carry on, and I think Rewound Radio is the best of them. Click the link and make a request! I did.
[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2012/07/RewoundRadio.mp3|titles=Rewound Radio]Another favorite online station, Beatles-A-Rama, unfortunately seems to be nearing its likely end. Here’s the story.
I’ll contribute some money, but considering the financial shortfall I don’t see how Pat can save the sinking ship.
Ernie
To my mother, he was Ernie. Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine is dead at age 95. After my mother graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she joined the Barter Theatre, a traveling troupe of actors based in Virginia. Ernie drove the bus.
Independence Day, 1902
Happy 4th of July, Foxy Grandpa (you know who you are)!
Pratt Robbed
Hey, Robb Pratt stole my dream job of cartoonist-animator!
Computers are the craziest people
All of you Cisco Unified Computing System fans are going to like this. I have an 8-blade chassis in the lab with two 6120XP fabric interconnects. I was able to access both of them with UCS Manager, then I took a Java update to 1.7 and my troubles began. I launched UCS Manager and got this message:
At first I thought it meant that Java 1.7 wasn’t considered to be a higher revision than 1.6.x, but then I realized it means that only 1.6 will work. So I uninstalled 1.7 and went back to 1.6. There was no Java error message, but the UCS Manager wouldn’t launch. So I tried going to the other 6120XP and it worked. From there I could see both units, but the first one still refused a direct connection. Which raised the question of what had broken? I updated to 1.7 again, tried getting into UCS Manager on the 6120XP that had worked minutes before, and it failed. Downdating to 1.6 left me with no access to UCS Manager.
What was the fix? Deleting the Java cache. Apparently, it can remember error events and replay them. After clearing the Java cache, this was how the Java console looked when the UCS Manager successfully launched on both 6120XP units.
This is one of my painful, and fortunately infrequent, examples of why I don’t blog about work.