Recently I started using SmartSVN running remotely on a Solaris 10 server and displaying on my Windows XP machine via Xming (the free Xserver). I quickly ran into some performance and usability issues which I hope to have solved.

There is an apparently known issue with running Java programs via X which causes all sorts…

Someone currently building an internal development environment required some integration between servers using SSH and the webservd user.
He came to me when he saw that the default home directory for the webservd user is /.  He didn’t want to create a /.ssh/authorized_keys file and I didn’t blame him. My first reaction was to change…

Cisco ASDM recently started giving me the following error: unconnected sockets not implemented.
After checking around, it seems that this is a known issue with newer Java releases, specifically the current version seems to require JRE 1.6u7.
Downgrading is an option but it is unnecessary. Instead open the Java control panel (Control Panel -> Java ->…