Cisco IDS Java Heap Issue

This morning I needed to get into some of our IPS modules in our Cisco ASA firewalls to check on some licensing issues that we were having. Unfortunately I had recently upgraded Java to version 7 and the code that we had on the firewall was not playing nice with Java 7, so that was kinda sad. I searched around and found that in some cases downgrading back down to Java 6 would fix the problem, but that did not solve the problem for me.

What ended up working was browsing to the IP address of the IPS modules and downloading the shortcut to directly launch the IDS to manage the IPS modules. When I launched the shortcut, it fired up the IDS and allowed me to log in, but quickly threw up a fun warning about memory:

Some people suggested that you can modify your Java settings in the control panel and add a switch to set your minimum heap size, but that wasn't working for me either. To solve the problem, I followed the solution found here and modified my IDS shortcut with a text editor, setting the java minimum heap size to 256m and the max size to 512m. See below for the line I modified:

Hope this helps out any other folks that are fighting to get into their IDS interface.

DQ6 Progress: Post 2 + Book Plug

So i'm up to about 11 hours clocked in DQ6 and I have mixed feelings thus far. The story has progressed forward a little bit and provided me a little bit of information as to one of the major plot elements, but I'm a little disappointed in how things turned out:

So as it turns out the alternate world is a "dream world." I was thinking it might be some kind of time travel or something like that, but I was dead wrong. I'm OK with that, but I don't entirely like how they did the whole "Hey thanks for killing that dread fiend but btw you're still asleep so why don't you go tool around the world for a bit and see if you can find the real you kthx". I didn't think that defeating Murdaw that quickly in the game would be the end (and perhaps I haven't seen the last of him yet) but I just wasn't crazy about that plot turn.

Regardless I will continue to soldier on as I'm still having a pretty good time destroying cute anime monsters and that's all that matters. There's also a class system that I have just scratched the surface of, but I am a huge fan of those so I hope to dive into that a bit more in the next few weeks.

While I'm writing here I just finished a pretty darn good book that I highly recommend everyone give a read. "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen is an account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden and also some good insight into the life of a US Navy Seal. I recommend anyone interested in how that whole thing went down check it out and you will not be disappointed.