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Cannot connect to Steam Server
Well, well, well, Steam really corrupted things this time. This week they added a survey that detected the software installed on a user’s system, and I can only guess that their changes caused the trouble. I could not connect to … Continue reading
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Two features Microsoft should add or leverage better in Windows 7 Ultimate
According to a Bloomberg report, Microsoft is looking for greater technology knowledge in its executive ranks. It is hard to imagine that one of the most successful software companies in all of history needs such. I submit that, irrespective of … Continue reading
You want the car to start, or just the wiper switch replaced?
Regarding the following article: Mechanics Seek Out ‘Right to Repair’ I am not surprised that the automakers continue to make car parts proprietary. This article talks about a Saab windshield-wiper switch that requires initialization before it can be installed. If … Continue reading
Radeon 5750 crashes
It has either been a very long time, or this has never happened to me with of all things, a video card. I installed a XFX Radeon 5750 and when XP (SP3) showed that new hardware was detected, the system … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous Apps and Services
Tagged BSOD, installation crash, installation fails, Radeon 5750, Windows XP
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eBook Lending – my rant
Book publishers haven’t a clue about who their customer is and what they want. Long live the trees. Continue reading
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Flash on the iPlatform
Yeah yeah yeah, yet another “why Flash isn’t on the iPlatform” article points out some of the spurious points. The author points out “The facts remain, however, that the iPad will run HTML5 video inline today (and iPhone OS 4 … Continue reading
I offer our talent to Yet-another-failed I.T. project run by the government
Open letter to the soon-to-be-fired person who contracted the Failed Census Bureau I.T. Project. We at Joroto can code your failed Census Bureau system in less than 2 years, using the equipment that you will obviously get socked with for … Continue reading
Appfuse – width of web page
Ok this took a ton of time to figure out. Problem: I don’t like 800×600 pages. I have widescreen LCDs and many other people do too. I will check the stats which is a developer type site, and here which … Continue reading
Appfuse – Test failure
Sometimes the tests will fail because you have generated your classes in an order that does not support the tests. For example, I have a Base class that is included as an attribute of another class. However, I had made … Continue reading
Appfuse – Extending your classes
I had extended my Event class to include references to other objects. I also created @OneToOne annotations of them. All of a sudden the tests wouldn’t run. Well the problem lay in the sample data that is loaded into the … Continue reading
Appfuse – the next step
Appfuse – personalizing the app 2/13/2010 Purpose: Which files to edit in order to personalize the existing app for my company. Remember: App name is: tree Company is: joroto.com Source is in: Download article as PDF
Posted in Miscellaneous Apps and Services
Tagged appfuse, css, freemarker, programming, web
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Appfuse – quick start guide for newbies.
Appfuse Add classes to initial project creation 2/12/2010 Overview: You have done the QuickStart to see if you can get everything to work. This article assumes you DID indeed get the initial project working. You’re excited and want to “add … Continue reading
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Tagged appfuse, code generator, java, raible, spring, struts, web
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Pasting text sends e-mail in Outlook
This happened to me using TPX remoting into an IBM 3390 mainframe and MS Outlook 2000. I was usng <ctrl-c> in the green screen session and pasting into an e-mail in Outlook 2000. The process must have capture additional keystrokes … Continue reading
the server did not provide a certificate during the session e-mail error
This is written for a user of The Bat! Adjust accordingly if your e-mail client is stating that your provider is not providing a certificate. 1) Go to the SSL link at your Internet Provider. If you are using secure … Continue reading
Rhapsody stops playing in XP
[This article refers to Rhapsody software for Windows version 4.0 Build 5.209] I have the latest Rhapsody software and Windows XP. Periodically Rhapsody stops playing music. I click on the song, and no indicator appears to indicate it is attempting … Continue reading
Add a custom symbol to a field in Excel
I came across this method when attempting to add a percent (%) sign to my data without Excel multiplying all of the numbers by one hundred, as it does when formatting as a percent. I could find no way to … Continue reading
The Matrix for the rest of us – Virtualization for the masses
Virtual PC sucks. Virtual Box rocks. VMWare is good too. Continue reading
udev is your friend
I was solving yet another problem with deployment where we replace a printer with one interface (a parallel port /dev/lp0) with the same printer with a different interface (a usb port /dev/usb/lp0). Download article as PDF
Posted in Miscellaneous Apps and Services
Tagged cups, lp0, printers.conf, rules, SUSE 11, udev
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Cannot login to LinkedIn after changing password
I cannot login to LinkedIn after resetting my password. Continue reading
Monster.com going bye-bye?
BusinessWeek wrote about Monster.com’s competition and loss of business: Recruiting: Enough to Make a Monster Tremble A clear sign that a formerly super-successful dot com with a spectacular profit margin has turned into a typical Fortune 500 Company run by … Continue reading
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Tagged job market, linkedin, monster.com, monster.com dying, online recruiting
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Internet Pricing Exposed – Time for a personal domain?
Those of you getting a price increase in Internet service, consider buying a personal domain, setting up a permanent e-mail address, giving you the freedom to switch providers at will. Continue reading
How to Edit Your WordPress Blog with Adobe Contribute
Setup Adobe Contribute to edit your Wordpress blog. Continue reading
How to backup your WordPress Blog
I post this, not because there are not a million other web sites that tell how to do this, but because they all tell me to go to “manage” and I do not see a “manage” function in WordPress. Here … Continue reading →