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Last night when I pointed my Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 browser to ADP’s self-service portal at https://portal.adp.com, a code segment was returned on the top of the page. Internet explorer didn’t show these code. Both has the code segment in the source (’view source’ option under Tools) though. It shocked me very much, considering how much corporate payroll and benefits are now serviced by ADP’s self-service portal. This, by the way, also helps to approve that HTTPS (HTTP+SSL/TLS) alone won’t secure your server as I wrote earlier.
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In order to prepare a development web server running Redhat Linux 9 for 2007 DST changes, I upgraded its glibc from 2.3.2-27 to 2.3.2-71 to take advantage of tzdata rpm packages updated for 2007 DST changes.

• glibc-2.3.2-64 is the earliest version of glibc RPM that has separated timezone data into a new rpm named tzdata (More details can be found here).
• A backend Sybase ASE server also runs RHL 9, but with a newer glibc-2.3.2-71. The latter was recommended by Michael Peppler for Sybase ASE 12.5 on RHL9 to get around certain bugs in the glibc RPM package shipped with the original RHL9. Read the rest of this entry »
  

A developer alerted me that the jdk1.5.0_10 on a test server didn’t work.  A simple ‘java -version’ gave  the following error:

 Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

Poking around a little under /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_10,  I found that rt.jar was missing!  This version of JDK is an upgrade to accommodate the 2007 DST changes. Our current version 1.5.0_05 is just one revision older than the up-to-date release (1.5.0_06) .  I had problems installing it as a RPM on that particular server and ended up using rpm2cpio to get it in manually. The RPM was from SUN’s own download site.

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