Mumbai blasts - Western Illinois University Link

Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) a banned oraganization in India is responsible for Mumbai bomb blasts killing 52 people. The founder of SIMI works at Western Illinois University . Hamas is the most admired oraganization by SIMI.

Hubble's Close Encounter with Mars

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 34,648,840 miles (55,760,220 km) away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken between 6:20 p.m. and 7:12 p.m. EDT Aug. 26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The picture was taken just 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years.

Overture Ad @ Google Ads?

While reading Google Weblog, I noticed that Overture Ad is listed as part of Google Ads.

Probably since M$ started Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site the world has changed.

Sun to blast off Gemini in 2004

The Register has an interesting article about Gemini.
Sun says Gemini will perform about 3 times better than current 1.0GHz UltraSPARC IIIi chips. The successor to Gemini - Niagara - will arrive in 2005 with a 15X performance boost over current chips.

Re: Where are my free JavaBeans?!

http://www.servlets.com/jservlet2/examples/ch06/GraphicalCounter.java

Mark your Calendars for Aug 27th

Mars Closest To Earth in 50,000 Years

Never again in our lifetimes will the Red Planet be so spectacular.

This month and next Earth is catching up with Mars, an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5,000 years but it may be as long as 60,000 years. The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August Mars will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. But by the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30 a.m. That's pretty convenient when it comes to seeing something that no human has seen in recordedhistory.

So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.

I will be getting a new Telescope for better view.

Killing all servers

Every once in a while(while upgrading to new version, testing new versions), we need to kill all the servers(Weblogic AdminServer, nodemanager, managed server). Here is the simple command I use:
ps -e | grep [j]ava | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -l kill

Ofcourse this works fine for dedicated servers where no other java instance is running.

So why is [j]ava used instead of java? If the pattern had been written without the square brackets, it would have matched not only the ps output line for java, but also the ps output line for grep. Note that some platforms ps limit the ouput to the width of the screen, grep does not have any limit on the length of a line except the available memory.

You can find more of these tricks here with grep.