Installing Apache Tomcat 5.5.x on Windows 2003 x64

I had to install Apache Tomcat 5.5.26 on a Windows 2003 x64 Server. Installation went without any error signaled by the setup programs. Until I tried to statr the tomcat Service, it Just refused to start, and in Tomcat's logfiles I found this:

[2008-05-23 11:23:45] [402  prunsrv.c] [error]
The system cannot find the file specified.
[2008-05-23 11:23:45] [1246 prunsrv.c] [error]
Load configuration failed

Googling around I came across this article giving me the solution to the problem, eventhough the article talks about recompiling the "tomcat5.exe" program on the host. This because the Tomcat package contains a 32bit version of these programs wich ahve trouble to run on a 64bit system. Since I didn't had compiling tools available on the system I googled around a bit more and found a 64bit compiled version of this file in Apache's SVN server here the 2 executables found there are from the Tomcat 6.x series and are thus named tomcat6.exe & tomcat6w.exe
So I renamed the tomcat6.exe & tomcat6w.exe to tomcat5.exe & tomcat5w.exe , then placed them in the "/bin" folder of my Tomcat installation.

Afterwards I tried to restart the service and all came up.

Fun with iSCSI

Yesterday I heard about openfiler "Openfiler consolidates several open source technologies on the Linux 2.6 kernel base to deliver a comprehensive storage management solution that meets the needs of enterprise applications, users and administrators." (from openfiler website).
I always wanted to play with iSCSI but didn't have any appliance to play with it but with openfiler i just needed another PC. But then since I had just one PC I came up with the following idea.
Install VMWare-server 1.0.5 on my laptop (Dell Vostro 1500) running Slackware 12.0 installed openfiler on the VMWare (VM image available on openfiler's website), and also cerated a M$ windows XP VM. Then installed iSCSI initiators on my Slackware 12.0 using the open-iSCSI project and on the win XP i installed Microsofts iSCSI intiator. Then mounted iSCSI targets from openfiler on Slackware and XP, made several I/O operations.
In my tests I olso tried to expand a published iSCSI disc. However this was not possible through the web-UI but was able to expand the disk via the commandline interface by using the "lvextend" command as openfiler uses LVM for it's disk management. But I had to restart the iSCSI service to have the change visible to the iSCSI initiators.