The default HTTP timcout is 180 seconds (3 minutes), but this is not enough for long SQL query or BLAST operations. In some cases, we need to set a longer timeout for SOAP requests.
Set timeout for SOAP::Lite
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Monthly Archives: January 2006
ISG tomcat runs in non-tomcat user w/o sudo
By default, ISG tomcat (Lilly internal built) running with user “tomcat”. Its instances runs extremely well with this account, but when we try to run the instance with non-tomcat accounts, problems occurs.
Fixed prozilla http seg-download via proxy
Prozilla is a UNIX download accelerator. It is supposed to work with proxy on all UNIX platforms seamlessly, but the latest version (2.0.5) get a few errors.
ZT: 上海的房价
From: WenXueCity
最近每次和朋友吃饭，不免谈到上海的房价，于是每每会和已经买房的朋友发生一些争执。由于我是学经济学，工作又在金融圈内，每次都把朋友说的悻悻而退，经过几次后，想到应该把自己关于上海房价的判断以及推导原因写出来以供更多朋友讨论。
Fixed “header already sent” error for GoogleSiteMap.php
I used a PHP script GoogleSiteMap.php to automatically generate site map for google index. It works well for the last a few months, but suddently reports error since Jan 2006.
add pointers to density karyoview
There are a few development tasks related Ensembl for LSB these
days. After adding zmenu for karyoview, we tried to add pointers to
density karyoview. The original karyoview only shows the tracks, now we
need to add pointers for the cellline information. In addition, these two input should come from different URL option, we prefer “url_file” for tracks and “gene_file” for pointers.
wget 1.10.x fixed recursive ftp download over proxy
We once encounter an annoying problem of recursively downloading FTP data using wget, through a ftp-over-http proxy. Previously it was the proxy firmware that does not support recursive downloads, but even upgrading we realized there is problem with wget itself as well.
Tips on travel in Europe
Shen Ru just came back from Europe for her honeymoon. Here are some useful information we can refer to.
ZT: 小龙虾
小龙虾是二战时期日本军队输入中国用来处理尸体的！！！！
bugzilla integrated with LDAP
Bugzilla 2.20 already uses Net::LDAP to work with LDAP authentication, however, due to some configuration in LSB LDAP server, the original code from Bugzilla does not work. I hacked the LDAP.pm for authentication and figured out the correct configuration for the site preference.