My friend recently brought Orion skyquest Xt8 and I saw moon with it and boy I was hooked on to it. So I had to get a one but I wasnt sure if I would really use it or not so I saw got a used one for $75 from craigslist. The next few days were cloudy but then on third day finally I was able to see Saturn and I was all thrilled. The moon was awesome. The only problem is that its hard to get the object into view in the main eyepiece even though finder shows it. I have finally fixed the issue, I will write a post about the issue (debugging the issue was fun).
Update: This JSP does not work on a thread that is inside some native code. On many occasions I had a thread stuck in JNI code and it wont work. Also in some cases thread.stop can cause jvm to hang. According to javadocs " This method is inherently unsafe. Stopping a thread with Thread.stop causes it to unlock all of the monitors that it has locked". I have used it only in some rare occasions where I wanted to avoid a system shutdown and in some cases we ended up doing system shutdown as jvm was hung so I had a 70-80% success with it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had an interesting requirement. A tomcat thread that was spawned from an ExecutorService ThreadPool had gone Rogue and was causing lots of disk churning issues. We cant bring down the production server as that would involve downtime. Killing this thread was harmless but how to kill it, t
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