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Recent Java networking problems, anyone?

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

I just noticed that all of a sudden no Java program can access network anymore.
After reinstalling a fresh Sun JDK, checking all policies and properties and proxies, none of which helped, I finally managed to ask the all-knowing One the right question.
It’s got to do with premature eja… erm … IPv6 exclusivity.
Checking this and this [...]

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Linux speed up

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

There has been an interesting discussion in the kernel mailing list on a subject that even though is not new, it never hit the masses because of ignorance and misjudgment. After all, anyone setting up a Linux server probably already makes use of the noatime fstab option whenever possible. atime is the culprit of writing [...]

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I recently started using Google Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress and noticed that name and class attributes get removed when a user under author profile saves a post.
To fix this you have to edit wp-includes/kses.php file by adding two lines of code

‘pre’ => array(
‘name’ => array(), // added
‘class’ => array(), // added
’style’ => [...]

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I recently updated drivers of my Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and volume buttons magically stopped working. After Googling for a while I found a solution. To fix the problem run the command below in command line:
rundll32.exe hid.dll,HidservInstaller /install

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