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Too Big to Fail = Too Big
Psuedo Guru | General | 2008-12-11 10:33:33.0 | By rickg
In light of all the bailouts of various companies deemed "too big to fail", maybe it is time to start thinking...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2008-12-11 10:33:33.0 | By rickg
In light of all the bailouts of various companies deemed "too big to fail", maybe it is time to start thinking...
Eudora 554 Relay access denied with Postfix and SASL
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2008-11-15 00:56:12.0 | By rickg
I ran "apt-get upgrade" on my server recently, and didn't pay too much attention to what it fixed until my Eud...
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2008-11-15 00:56:12.0 | By rickg
I ran "apt-get upgrade" on my server recently, and didn't pay too much attention to what it fixed until my Eud...
Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) Problem
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-10-09 09:41:26.0 | By rickg
Got the following error while opening a visual class in Eclipse. IWAV0168E Improper nesting of mark statements in ...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-10-09 09:41:26.0 | By rickg
Got the following error while opening a visual class in Eclipse. IWAV0168E Improper nesting of mark statements in ...
Remote desktop fails silently
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2008-10-01 19:02:07.0 | By rickg
I had remote desktop working on a WinXP Pro machine for ages, but hadn't accessed it for a couple months. When I tried t...
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2008-10-01 19:02:07.0 | By rickg
I had remote desktop working on a WinXP Pro machine for ages, but hadn't accessed it for a couple months. When I tried t...
Branch target offset too large for short
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-07-25 14:57:22.0 | By rickg
I was trying to compile a rather large XSLT file using the built-in Java 1.5.x libraries, and ran into the following err...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-07-25 14:57:22.0 | By rickg
I was trying to compile a rather large XSLT file using the built-in Java 1.5.x libraries, and ran into the following err...
Accessing a Java resource as a file
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-06-11 02:55:38.0 | By rickg
Here is some quick and dirty code to get access to a resource on the class path as a File object: URL url = this.get...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-06-11 02:55:38.0 | By rickg
Here is some quick and dirty code to get access to a resource on the class path as a File object: URL url = this.get...
Unable to Run Windows Update
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2008-06-09 01:36:30.0 | By rickg
I upgraded an old Windows 2000 virtual machine to Windows XP today, and afterwards tried to run Windows Update, but got ...
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2008-06-09 01:36:30.0 | By rickg
I upgraded an old Windows 2000 virtual machine to Windows XP today, and afterwards tried to run Windows Update, but got ...
Undelete in Alfresco
Psuedo Guru | Content Management | 2008-06-09 00:41:10.0 | By rickg
I keep forgetting where to go in Alfresco to recover deleted items (or delete old items completely), so I am making a no...
Psuedo Guru | Content Management | 2008-06-09 00:41:10.0 | By rickg
I keep forgetting where to go in Alfresco to recover deleted items (or delete old items completely), so I am making a no...
Artigo Pico ITX Windows Install
Psuedo Guru | Pico ITX | 2008-05-14 02:30:23.0 | By rickg
After my Ubuntu test install (really just checking to see if I built the thing right), I went ahead and installed Window...
Psuedo Guru | Pico ITX | 2008-05-14 02:30:23.0 | By rickg
After my Ubuntu test install (really just checking to see if I built the thing right), I went ahead and installed Window...
Artigo Pico ITX OS test install
Psuedo Guru | Pico ITX | 2008-05-12 21:49:22.0 | By rickg
Got back from my business trip, and decided to try to install Ubuntu on my new Artigo. First I had to hook up a USB ...
Psuedo Guru | Pico ITX | 2008-05-12 21:49:22.0 | By rickg
Got back from my business trip, and decided to try to install Ubuntu on my new Artigo. First I had to hook up a USB ...
Artigo Pico-ITX VGA problem
Psuedo Guru | Pico ITX | 2008-05-03 21:24:20.0 | By rickg
I picked up one of those uber-geeky Artigo Pico-ITX kits this week and started putting it together. Man, did my finger...
Psuedo Guru | Pico ITX | 2008-05-03 21:24:20.0 | By rickg
I picked up one of those uber-geeky Artigo Pico-ITX kits this week and started putting it together. Man, did my finger...
Problems with WSDL-first web service in Eclipse 3.3
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-04-24 10:11:21.0 | By rickg
Tried creating a WSDL-first web service in Eclipse, and it was far less straight forward than it should have been, but I...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-04-24 10:11:21.0 | By rickg
Tried creating a WSDL-first web service in Eclipse, and it was far less straight forward than it should have been, but I...
Installing Wine on Centos 5
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2008-04-23 03:26:51.0 | By rickg
Decided to try loading Wine on my Centos 5 install. It was dead simple. These instructions should also work for Red Hat ...
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2008-04-23 03:26:51.0 | By rickg
Decided to try loading Wine on my Centos 5 install. It was dead simple. These instructions should also work for Red Hat ...
Fixing OutOfMemory errors with Ant
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-04-15 04:45:13.0 | By rickg
Ever get this while running an Ant task like wsdl2java or javac? java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space ...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-04-15 04:45:13.0 | By rickg
Ever get this while running an Ant task like wsdl2java or javac? java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space ...
Installing JavaEE on RHEL5/Centos
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-04-14 10:11:13.0 | By rickg
Tried installing the Java 5 enterprise edition on Centos 5.1 and got the following error: ./java_ee_sdk-5_04-linu...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-04-14 10:11:13.0 | By rickg
Tried installing the Java 5 enterprise edition on Centos 5.1 and got the following error: ./java_ee_sdk-5_04-linu...
NMI: Parity Check
Psuedo Guru | Hardware | 2008-04-02 08:05:47.0 | By rickg
Over the past few weeks, my Dell Inspiron E1705 has started blue screening with the dreaded "NMI: Parity Check"...
Psuedo Guru | Hardware | 2008-04-02 08:05:47.0 | By rickg
Over the past few weeks, my Dell Inspiron E1705 has started blue screening with the dreaded "NMI: Parity Check"...
Speeding up VMware on my laptop
Psuedo Guru | VMware | 2008-03-19 11:06:18.0 | By rickg
I've been fighting battles with VMware on my laptop for some time now. Even though I have 2 gigs of RAM, enough to easil...
Psuedo Guru | VMware | 2008-03-19 11:06:18.0 | By rickg
I've been fighting battles with VMware on my laptop for some time now. Even though I have 2 gigs of RAM, enough to easil...
Postfix whitelist
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2008-03-17 07:53:59.0 | By rickg
I had some spam blacklist checking working pretty well with postfix, then an important client got themselves blacklisted...
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2008-03-17 07:53:59.0 | By rickg
I had some spam blacklist checking working pretty well with postfix, then an important client got themselves blacklisted...
Converting a DOM Document to a String
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-02-20 13:04:39.0 | By rickg
Here is a simple Java method for converting a DOM object into a String. Hope someone finds it useful: private Strin...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-02-20 13:04:39.0 | By rickg
Here is a simple Java method for converting a DOM object into a String. Hope someone finds it useful: private Strin...
System.genenv() is back!
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-02-20 13:00:46.0 | By rickg
Maybe I am the last person in the Java world to realize this, but I just found out that System.getenv() was re-enabled i...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-02-20 13:00:46.0 | By rickg
Maybe I am the last person in the Java world to realize this, but I just found out that System.getenv() was re-enabled i...
Meaningful parameter names from java2wsdl
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-02-08 03:13:03.0 | By rickg
I ran the axis java2wsdl tool, and it spit out WSDL that looked like this: <schema elementFormDefault="qua...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2008-02-08 03:13:03.0 | By rickg
I ran the axis java2wsdl tool, and it spit out WSDL that looked like this: <schema elementFormDefault="qua...
Turn on versioning by default in Alfresco
Psuedo Guru | Content Management | 2008-01-03 06:11:33.0 | By rickg
After having someone importing a bad document into Alfresco (blowing away the good one in the process), I decided it was...
Psuedo Guru | Content Management | 2008-01-03 06:11:33.0 | By rickg
After having someone importing a bad document into Alfresco (blowing away the good one in the process), I decided it was...
Adding Dali (JPA) to an existing web project in Eclipse
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-12-13 22:55:50.0 | By rickg
Adding Dali (JPA perspective) to an existing web project in Eclipse. Add GlassFish TopLink Essentials jars (or ...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-12-13 22:55:50.0 | By rickg
Adding Dali (JPA perspective) to an existing web project in Eclipse. Add GlassFish TopLink Essentials jars (or ...
Table/View 'SEQUENCE' does not exist
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-12-12 09:15:12.0 | By rickg
While experimenting with the glassfish JPA implementation (toplink essentials), I ran into the following problem while t...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-12-12 09:15:12.0 | By rickg
While experimenting with the glassfish JPA implementation (toplink essentials), I ran into the following problem while t...
Adding Java Nature to an Eclipse Project
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-12-05 03:46:32.0 | By rickg
An overzealous configuration management (CM) guy recently decided to "restructure" our CVS repository without ...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-12-05 03:46:32.0 | By rickg
An overzealous configuration management (CM) guy recently decided to "restructure" our CVS repository without ...
UnsatisfiedLinkError
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-11-07 07:28:45.0 | By rickg
Ran into this little doozy today: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native Library C:\Program Files\Documentum\Shared\d...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-11-07 07:28:45.0 | By rickg
Ran into this little doozy today: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native Library C:\Program Files\Documentum\Shared\d...
InvocationTargetException using Axis and OAS
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-11-07 03:55:57.0 | By rickg
I am having no end of grief using Apache Axis (1.4) and Oracle Application Server (OAS). Seems like 80% of the time ...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-11-07 03:55:57.0 | By rickg
I am having no end of grief using Apache Axis (1.4) and Oracle Application Server (OAS). Seems like 80% of the time ...
Invoking the Task Manager without CTRL-ALT-DELETE
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2007-10-25 12:17:50.0 | By rickg
I was in a remote desktop session that was launched while inside a VMware virtual machine (don't ask why), and needed to...
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2007-10-25 12:17:50.0 | By rickg
I was in a remote desktop session that was launched while inside a VMware virtual machine (don't ask why), and needed to...
Windows 2000 beeping at login
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2007-10-22 03:22:36.0 | By rickg
For some reason, one of my W2K VMs keeps beeping at whenever I log in. I think it is related somehow to the accessibilit...
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2007-10-22 03:22:36.0 | By rickg
For some reason, one of my W2K VMs keeps beeping at whenever I log in. I think it is related somehow to the accessibilit...
USB-SATA Bridge problem
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2007-09-15 02:08:03.0 | By rickg
Just bought a new Buffalo MiniStation 250 GB USB drive. It worked like a charm on my laptop, but on my desktop machine I...
Psuedo Guru | Windows | 2007-09-15 02:08:03.0 | By rickg
Just bought a new Buffalo MiniStation 250 GB USB drive. It worked like a charm on my laptop, but on my desktop machine I...
Head rush disorder help
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-08-23 08:33:55.0 | By rickg
My wife has been suffering from "head rushes" for quite some time now. They happen when she stands up rapidly,...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-08-23 08:33:55.0 | By rickg
My wife has been suffering from "head rushes" for quite some time now. They happen when she stands up rapidly,...
Unsigned long in Java
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-08-21 22:12:23.0 | By rickg
I needed to get the unsigned value of the bytes in a long. Took some digging, but this finally worked for me: lon...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-08-21 22:12:23.0 | By rickg
I needed to get the unsigned value of the bytes in a long. Took some digging, but this finally worked for me: lon...
Skype Outage
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-08-17 06:59:31.0 | By rickg
Well, it's been over 24 hours, and Skype is still down. I had really resisted depending on VOIP until I went to Japan, a...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-08-17 06:59:31.0 | By rickg
Well, it's been over 24 hours, and Skype is still down. I had really resisted depending on VOIP until I went to Japan, a...
Dialing the US from Japan with an NTT phone line
Psuedo Guru | Japan | 2007-08-16 12:24:33.0 | By rickg
I'd been using SkypeOut for all my US calls from Japan, until today. I had an important meeting to dial into, but could ...
Psuedo Guru | Japan | 2007-08-16 12:24:33.0 | By rickg
I'd been using SkypeOut for all my US calls from Japan, until today. I had an important meeting to dial into, but could ...
Getting money in Japan
Psuedo Guru | Japan | 2007-08-15 01:33:39.0 | By rickg
Well, I officially moved to Japan last week. My first big trama was finding out how to get cash out of my US bank accoun...
Psuedo Guru | Japan | 2007-08-15 01:33:39.0 | By rickg
Well, I officially moved to Japan last week. My first big trama was finding out how to get cash out of my US bank accoun...
Creating a self-signing certificate and signing a jar file.
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-07-30 15:50:05.0 | By rickg
To create a certificate that you can use to self-sign your JAR files, launch the keytool application (must be in your pa...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-07-30 15:50:05.0 | By rickg
To create a certificate that you can use to self-sign your JAR files, launch the keytool application (must be in your pa...
Installing Linux headers for VMware Tools
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2007-07-27 23:16:18.0 | By rickg
Installed CentOS 5 on a new VM today, then tried installing vmware tools. Got all the way up to running vmware-config-to...
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2007-07-27 23:16:18.0 | By rickg
Installed CentOS 5 on a new VM today, then tried installing vmware tools. Got all the way up to running vmware-config-to...
WMP300N and WRVS4400N woes
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-07-09 14:16:42.0 | By rickg
Decided to go with Wireless N at my new pad, and have been having a hell of a time getting my card (WMP300N) and router ...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-07-09 14:16:42.0 | By rickg
Decided to go with Wireless N at my new pad, and have been having a hell of a time getting my card (WMP300N) and router ...
Comcast - unplug modem when switching computers
Psuedo Guru | Configuration | 2007-05-28 03:21:59.0 | By rickg
Moved into a new place recently. Before moving in, I brought my laptop over to ensure the new comcast cable internet was...
Psuedo Guru | Configuration | 2007-05-28 03:21:59.0 | By rickg
Moved into a new place recently. Before moving in, I brought my laptop over to ensure the new comcast cable internet was...
Removing/Resolving field codes in Word
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-05-24 15:12:45.0 | By rickg
This is more of a note to myself that anything else, but the command to remove field code in MS Word is CTRL-SHIFT-F9. I...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-05-24 15:12:45.0 | By rickg
This is more of a note to myself that anything else, but the command to remove field code in MS Word is CTRL-SHIFT-F9. I...
Starcraft II
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-05-19 22:46:24.0 | By rickg
Oh yeah, lets go Zerg huntin'! Read on...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-05-19 22:46:24.0 | By rickg
Oh yeah, lets go Zerg huntin'! Read on...
Cannot get a connection, pool exhausted
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-04-15 12:16:55.0 | By rickg
I kept getting the following error on a web app that was using Tomcat's built in connection pooling: Cannot get a...
Psuedo Guru | Java | 2007-04-15 12:16:55.0 | By rickg
I kept getting the following error on a web app that was using Tomcat's built in connection pooling: Cannot get a...
Installing Gnome from the command line
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2007-04-06 20:20:22.0 | By rickg
I installed a CentOS server without a GUI recently, then decided after the fact that some things would be easier with a ...
Psuedo Guru | Linux | 2007-04-06 20:20:22.0 | By rickg
I installed a CentOS server without a GUI recently, then decided after the fact that some things would be easier with a ...
Surviving the Red Eye
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-03-26 19:16:03.0 | By rickg
Took a red eye flight last night to DC, then went straight from the airport to an all day meeting. I was actually semi c...
Psuedo Guru | General | 2007-03-26 19:16:03.0 | By rickg
Took a red eye flight last night to DC, then went straight from the airport to an all day meeting. I was actually semi c...
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