I have a program in my server which is a memory hogger. Every time its memory consumption hit certain number, it will stop entertaining users’ request. Which in turn, the users will call me, and ask me to restart that program.

So before I get down and get my hands dirty, I googled for solutions. But the closest I can get is:

• Process Monitors.
• Crash restarter

So I guess I need to write it on my own. Enlighten me please 🙂

Forgot your Windows Administrator password? Try this amazing tool: Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. You can download the ISO CD image and burn it to a CD as an emergency CD.

No blank CD? No problem. You can also use thumbdrive and make it bootable. How? read README.TXT inside the ISO CD Image file.

Too lazy to read? Well basically it consist of two steps:

1. Copy all files from the ISO CD Image to the thumbdrive
2. Assuming that your thumbdrive is mounted as drive F:, open console/command-prompt and execute this command: F:syslinux.exe -ma F:

Thank You pnh@pogostick.net, you saved me today 😀

I searched the “Internets” (with a grin to GWB), but found nothing. So this post is a placeholder for whatever findings in my future research.

Bear with me please 🙂

Update: 11-Jan-2009

There’s a glimmer hope by using direct HTTP post to the Jasper Report’s web service using techniques described here:

• Programmatically generating web service calls
• Making raw web service calls with the HttpWebRequest class
• Invoking Web Service dynamically using HttpWebRequest

By using above method, we will get the full stream of the response. Now the problem is how to separate the binary data and the text data.

Update: 12-Jan-2009

Found a clue on how to read mixed binary data and text: What’s the best way to read mixed (i.e. text and binary) data

Update: 19-Jan-2009
I have successfully use ASP.NET to invoke Jasper Report web service, and obtain the PDF/XLS/CSV file. The solution is now still very crude, I’m gonna need sometime to clean it up.