Daniel E. Markle's Blog - Comments

linda: Struts html:text and the 'disabled' flag

syntax@ashtech.net (linda) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:17:04 -0500

Excellent. I was hitting on my head for 2 weeks about this. God bless you.

Anonymous: Netbeans svn+ssh Username Glitch

syntax@ashtech.net () — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:59:28 -0500

My experience w/ this bug is that I would fill it in as
svn+ssh://username@server/dir1/dir2
and tunnel method
ssh -l username

...and it would work initially, but sometime later (maybe after restarting Netbeans?) it would break as you described.

Your workaround (assuming it works, I haven't tried) sounds great if you're creating a new repository, but doesn't explain what to do if the repository is already created. So here's what I did:

First, I did a grep to find all the files / lines in my source directory that would have the info I needed to change.

cd workingdir
grep -R servername .

I noted that none of them had my username@ preceding servername, as expected. I found that all files that needed to be changed were in .svn/ folders, and all were named "entries". Doing a listing on these files revealed that they were all read only, so if I was to change them, I'd have to

chmod u+w `find . -name entries`

I proceeded to insert the "username@" in the files using regexxer. (I'm using Ubuntu, so I installed it directly from the universe repository. Here is a blog post about it: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/137-Productive-Monday-Regexxer-GUI-search-replace.html . The regexxer homepage is http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/ . If you need this functionality on Windows, I hear jEdit may work.)

I navigated to the svn working copy on the left, and checked the "hidden" box (recursive was already checked). In the search field, I put "svn\+ssh:\/\/servername" (no quotes). (For users familiar w/ regular expressions, note that the plus sign needs to be escaped here, whereas it doesn't for a grep search, or for sed replacement.)

I copied the search text, pasted it in the Replace, and inserted added the obvious so it looked like "svn\+ssh:\/\/username@servername" (no quotes).

I clicked Find so it would show me the files containing the search string, and there's a preview of the first replacement toward the bottom right. It all looked good, so I clicked "All Files", which performed the replacement.

Lastly, I undid the permissions change at the command line (while still in the workingdir):

chmod u-w `find . -name entries`

So far, so good. Hopefully Netbeans won't strip it again. At least now if it does, I can fight back. If it happens repeatedly, I can make a shell script using perl or sed.

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BTW, I was using Netbeans 6.1, and I'm currently using NetBeans 6.5 RC2. I experienced this bug on both, though in 6.5 RC2 it may have been only after I migrated from 6.1, I really don't know.

...Has no one submitted this bug yet? If not, do you know where one could do so?

Anonymous: APC Back-UPS XS 1500

syntax@ashtech.net () — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:46:27 -0400

Isn't it obvious that your meter is reading 100watts low? Mine happens to read 30watts low for various loads.

Craig: Java Swing Browser Launching

craig399@gmail.com (Craig) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:32:05 -0400

Does anyone by chance know of a handy way to launch a browser behind the scenes and then take a screen capture of the client arew once the page is loaded?

some1: APC Back-UPS XS 1500

syntax@ashtech.net (some1) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:27:32 -0400

LCD Full Time Display Mode
The LCD can be set to full time display mode by performing the following steps:
1. Ensure the unit is connected to utility input power, and the power on/off switch
is turned off (no power is supplied to the output connectors).
2. Press the DISPLAY/HOLD TO MUTE pushbutton, and hold it in for 10
seconds. All five blocks in the Battery Capacity bar will flash off and on, which
indicates the unit is in pushbutton programming mode.
Note: A rotating selection method is used that allows you to step through the
display modes using the DISPLAY/HOLD TO MUTE button until you
select the display mode you want. For example, in Power Save mode
none of the blocks are lit. If all five of the blocks are lit, it indicates
the LCD is in full time mode, and will remain on full time.
3. When you rotate through the selections and reach the display mode you want,
press and release the DISPLAY/HOLD TO MUTE button to select the display
mode.
Note: If no buttons are pushed, and no operations occur for five seconds, the
unit automatically exits pushbutton programming mode.
4. Once you have selected the desired display mode, continue with normal
operations.

Martijn de Munnik: Solaris 10 Partitioning, RAID, and ZFS

martijn@youngguns.nl (Martijn de Munnik) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:36:58 -0400

To make an AMD system (in my case a Sun Fire X2100M2) bootable I also did the following steps;

To /etc/system I added these lines:
set md:mirrored_root_flag=1
set md_mirror:md_resync_bufsz = 2048

To /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc:
setprop altbootpath '/pci@0,0/pci-ide@5/ide@1/cmdk@0,0:a'

Make the partitions on both discs active (format->fdisk).

indiehead: Data Scrub with Linux RAID or Die

indiehead@gmail.com (indiehead) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:19:33 -0400

was told about this after meeting up with some friends at LRUG, so got to put this in place quickly.

really glad he mentioned it,

John.

zazuge: Java Date Manipulation Annoyances

abderdar@yahoo.fr (zazuge) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:17:28 -0400

thanks for the info it helped me alot
especialy the add thingy
mabye it's better to wrapup higher level date manip functionality in a singleton date class
so we won't have to repeat those cryptic phrases ;)

Daniel E. Markle: PostgreSQL and Ruby on OS X

syntax@ashtech.net (Daniel E. Markle) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:42:59 -0400

Check for a misconfigured or missing pg_config. Try running /opt/PostgreSQL/8.3/bin/pg_config. If that command returns invalid paths (or the command or any shown elements are missing or wrong) the gem will never find the files it needs. If you are using packages, you may need the development versions.

Juan Escajadillo: PostgreSQL and Ruby on OS X

neurochild@gmail.com (Juan Escajadillo) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:14:27 -0400

Hi there.

I know you're working on Mac, but I think you installed your PostgreSQL via an installer and then installed the "pg" gem for Ruby. I'm having a problem here: I'm trying to install the same gem, pg-0.7.9.2008.10.05 (The last version). I followed similar instructions, but instead, I get this...

PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/8.3/bin:$PATH gem install pg
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing pg:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb install pg
checking for main() in -lpq... no
checking for main() in -llibpq... no
checking for main() in -lms/libpq... no
** extconf.rb failed **
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby
--with-pg-dir
--without-pg-dir
--with-pg-include
--without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
--with-pg-lib
--without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib
--with-pqlib
--without-pqlib
--with-libpqlib
--without-libpqlib
--with-ms/libpqlib
--without-ms/libpqlib
Could not find PostgreSQL build environment (libraries & headers): Makefile not created

It mentions 3 files missing as you can see, but that's impossible, because I installed PostgreSQL 8.3.4 via a Linux installer. What could be wrong? The version I'm using now, ruby-pg-0.7.9.2008.01.28, can be installed flawlessly and doesn't give me any errors, but i'm worried about the ActiveRecord support my gem doesn't have and the latest version does.

Can you help me? I'm working with a company in a project with Rails 2.1 and PostgreSQL 8.3.4. It's urgent!!! Any ideas?

Contact me here: neurochild@gmail.com

Greetings and thanks in advance.

Juan Escajadillo.

Sandy: Homemade Ice Cream Recipe for 6 quart Churn

cslehigh@gmail.com (Sandy) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:37 -0400

Daniel, Your recipe is very much like our own. We too have made ice cream for many many years. Here is what I have found that helps the rock hard problem. I use no whole milk now. Swiched to half and half. More costly and fattening but, what the hey.--Sandy

Feng Zhang: Hibernate Annotations Schema Handling

fzhangj2ee@gmail.com (Feng Zhang) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:29:17 -0400

In addition to change the element in hibernate.cfg.xml, need to change it in HibernateUtil.java

joe: APC Back-UPS XS 1500

jet472000@yahoo.com (joe) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:52:40 -0400

just how bad is the load featue on the lcd? also, is there a way to keep it on always so it doesnt go off after 10 sec?

Petr Jiricka: Netbeans Javascript and CSS Support

petr.jiricka@sun.com (Petr Jiricka) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:02:39 -0400

The JavaScript editor is definitely supposed to work within JSP files; if it does not, then that's a bug, and we would appreciate if you could submit a bug report through http://www.netbeans.org/issues/enter_bug.cgi. Also, I recommend using NetBeans 6.1 and downloading all the latest updates from the Update Center - they contain several important bugfixes in the JavaScript/JSP editing areas.

Patrick: First Bicycle Commute

200807-ashtech@haller.ws (Patrick) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:12:13 -0400

w00000! Have fun with that. Not sure how much biking you've done, so you might want to watch out for the seat chafing unfun. ;)