tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50633981292831509322024-10-04T22:18:09.576-05:00Yes I do dumb things sometimes but so do you.smchristensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494449480661626060noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063398129283150932.post-29119636086670147352013-04-23T22:34:00.000-05:002013-04-30T06:10:31.470-05:00

I have a dual monitor setup with two 23" monitors.  My company uses a product called LogMeIn to remotely log in to our work monitors.  I happen to have a dual monitor set up there too.  This causes problems with LogMeIn because in fullscreen mode showing both monitors at the same time makes it almost unusable and switching back and forth between the remote monitors is a pain. I

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The company I work for uses Adobe Livecycle for workflow management.  We also have a web front-end that acts as a proxy for user interaction with these workflows.  The web front-end will call the Livecycle APIs to generate a PDF and display it to a user. Recently I was asked to display one of these PDFs in a separate window.  Pretty simple task right?  I wrote a little bit of

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I ran into an issue with a shell script not functioning, getting the following error: bad interpreter: no such file or directory I verified that the shell was located at /bin/sh.  I then remembered that a colleague of mine made some changes to the script a few days earlier...on Windows...then moved it back.  Hmm.  Linebreaks ended up being the issue. I ran dos2unix filename

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I had installed Git Bash and was trying to push a set of commits back to github.  This was failing because git was looking for my ssh keys in the wrong location.  It should have been looking in /c/Users/myusername/.ssh but instead was looking in /c/Windows/SysWOW64/config/systemprofile/.ssh.  I found out it was due to the $HOME environment variable. I looked in my environment

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I wanted a quick Ubuntu server installation and installed the 10.04 server installation from virtualboxes.org.  Unfortunately for me, the keyboard layout wasn't correct and I wanted to change it.  Not being very well versed in Linux and all it's ins and outs, I wasn't sure how to do this.  I found out that you can change your keyboard configuration by using the following command:

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I spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why I could debug a PHP script in Eclipse one minute and the next not at all. Hopefully this will help someone else out too. My setup is Eclipse Helios PDT and WAMPServer 2.1 with PHP 5.3.5 and XDebug 2.1. I had no problem debugging scripts and then one day, poof! I started getting "Unexpected termination of script, debugging ended"

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I had a need to find the database block size in Oracle (which is different from the OS block size).  Here's the query for finding that information: SELECT tablespace_name, block_size FROM dba_tablespaces; Dummy Coder

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I did it again. I wrote some cool little XSLT that spit out an HTML document only to find out that all of my   turn into ? or Ă. Of course I should realize that the computer is only doing exactly what I told it to do.  Here's what I told it: <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [<!ENTITY nbsp " ">]> And the computer turned that into Ă exactly as I told it to or in the case

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I had a devil of a time finding out how to change the JRE that an applet runs under in IE.  There were registry tweaks and file copies galore but in the end it was pretty painless. I'm running 1.6.0_20 so your results may vary. I needed to run an older JRE as an applet in IE.  I had 1.4.2_17, 1.5.0_15 and 1.6.0_20 installed.  In order to change to 1.4 and 1.5 I opened up the Java

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Whenever I am developing or consuming a web service I like to bring up it's WSDL in my browser.  Being in a corporate environment, IE tends to be for others and is the default browser for our company.  IE generally displays XML in a user friendly way which I like. I love the Chrome browser.  I use it every chance I can.  I use it at our company.  I use it to view WSD...L

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