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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Now, thats a Palindrome...

Now that is a palindrome:

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal -- Panama!

From Common Lisp, the Language (2nd ed).

And now, this is a geek: http://www.norvig.com/pal2.html and this is a palindrome: http://www.norvig.com/pal1txt.html

Read more at the Google Blog.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Subclipse Proxy Configuration

Whew! That was a real big deal.

I wanted to checkout the newly open-sourced Google Web Toolkit using Eclipse via the Subversion plugin. I work behind a proxy and have a choice of three proxies offering varying capabilities and restrictions - some require authentication while others don't. When I tried checkout, I was in for a real surprise - I was getting an error message saying Error 407: Proxy authentication required. Since I did not set any proxy in the first place, I was wondering how a proxy was picked up and why I was not being prompted for authentication!

When I searched the Eclipse preferences dialog for SVN, I did not find any place where I can set up a proxy. Also, I wondered if Subclipse had somehow chosen to use my Windows default proxy configuration. So, I went to Control Panel > Internet Connection > Connections > LAN Settings. Nope, the default proxy that I had configured for my windows was different from the one that Subclipse was using - the default proxy did not require authentication while Subclipse was trying a proxy that required authentication. Exasperating!

Just wanted to be sure which proxy was being used. As usual, the Ethereal network protocol analyzer came to my rescue. I figured out that by default, Subclipse had chosen a proxy that needed authentication (I am yet to find out how it found the proxy address in the first place!) and had not prompted me for authentication. Then, a search through Eclipse help led me to this link: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07.html#svn-ch-7-sect-1.2.

In short, I had to edit the registry to set my proxy - call that user friendly??? Well, since most of the time people who check out code are geeks, may be I should excuse this!!! Here is where I had to go:
HKCU\Software\Tigris.org\Subersion\Servers\Global\http-proxy-host and http-proxy-port values. Once I set up the proxy there, all worked well.

Whew!!! Breathe easy now :)