Use DropBox to avoid large attachments in your emails
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Huge email attachments can be very annoying; avoid them using on-line storage such as DropBox.
Archive for the 'tips & tricks' Category
Recent Java networking problems, anyone?
Thursday, December 24th, 2009I 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 [...]
[Linux] filesystem check without live CD
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009On a mounted partition filesystem check (fsck) of course cannot be done and many tutorials suggest using a live CD of some sort. Here is a solution to force fsck on the next reboot:
touch /forcefsck
reboot
Netbeans Classloaders
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Netbeans classloader system consists of three types of classloaders, namely module classloader, system classloader and original classloader. Usually, module classloaders are used to load classes and resources from within the module itself. However, there are situations when you need to access classes and/or resources from other modules.
Imagine two modules, A and B. Class Ca from [...]
Boolean state menu items in Netbeans
Monday, September 28th, 2009Netbeans platform supports different kinds of actions (always enabled, CallableSystemAction, CallbackSystemAction etc). However, it was not clear to me how to create an action that could be used for toggling the state of the system. Initially, I experimented with Presenter.Menu interface and provided my own implementation of the JCheckMenuItem but couldn’t get the platform to [...]
Repair broken AVI in linux
Sunday, September 20th, 2009mencoder -idx input.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi
Problem using SC create under windows
Sunday, July 26th, 2009When you want to create a new service under windows, the most obvious way is usage of sc.exe
A “normal” user will read a help, and write:
sc create MyService binPath=C:\path\my.exe
The sc.exe only displays help, but does not do anything. The solution is another space after the “=”, so the right command is
sc create MyService binPath= C:\path\my.exe
Enjoy….