Evernote ftw

Today, my accountant asked me what a particular charge was for because it was uncategorized in my Quickbooks. I had no clue whatsoever what it was and my only hope was that I took a picture of the receipt and stored it in evernote. At first I tried doing the search for the amount, and it came up with nothing. It was awesome though, because it was able to do character recognition on my search. When I went to the date of the transaction, I found the receipt and realized why it couldn't find it during the search. It was the amount after tip and my handwriting is, well, let's say my penmanship needs a little work. So, the little act of keeping track of receipts kind of helped me. And it isn't that bad of a pain in the ass anymore. It's pretty much habit now. The only problem that I have had is that my iPhone 3gs is lagging badly. I think I have too much crap on it. Where is my iPhone 5????

FairUseCommander

So I have these encoded windows media files that I legally acquired (no, it's not porn) that I could only watch on my windows virtual machine. I wanted to be able to watch the videos at anytime from my mac so I went about trying to figure out how to remove the DRM when I came across FairUseCommander. It makes it pretty simple to remove drm from a batch of files. I've found it very helpful, but I'm running on a brand new xp install in a virtual machine with windows media viewer 9.00.00.4508. I know I read that there are some caveats with the different methods of drm removal so I kept my system pretty fresh. Out of all the different drm removal suggestions, FairUseCommander is the easiest to use.

IBM Rad + Websphere deployment issue

I recently ran into an issue when I would deploy an ear to a WebsShere App Server (WAS) and would receive this error :


AppDeploymentException: [null] java.lang.ClassCastException: org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.commonarchivecore.internal.impl.ArchiveImpl


I generated the EAR using Rational Application Developer (RAD) by simply selecting File > Export and selecting EAR under Java EE.

When I deployed the ear to my local test WAS, it deployed fine, but I received the error when it was deployed to a non test server. It turned out that the ear did not have the deployment descriptor in it and while it was fine for the test server, it is required for the actual server.

To resolve the problem you select the context menu of the ear by right clicking the project and selecting Java EE > Generate WebSphere Bindings Deployment Descriptor. It creates the application XML in the project and everything should deploy correctly.

Installing eclipse plugins into RAD

With eclipse 3.4 and above it's simple. You have to find the shared eclipse install, usually in an IBM folder under SDP, and unzip the downloaded plugin into the "dropin" folder. Seems simple enough, but I keep on forgetting. Given that I am sucking at blogging as of late, I figure I could use this as a place to keep notes.

I just installed the eclemma plugin into RAD 7.5 and, for once, it was simple to do. Yay!

Updated 3:34pm

...or not. Tried installing the PMD plugin. It didn't work from the drop in folder. I had to copy the files directly into the SDP directory. Oh well. If anyone is wondering why I'm doing this manually, for some reason, I get a 403 forbidden response when I run it from the machine inside the government network, so it isn't able to download the plugins when I try to do it from the software updater. When I'm on a personal network, it works fine. Might be a proxy setup thing, but I don't feel like figuring it out.

Uninstalling Paragon ExtFS software

I tried installing Paragon software to try and write to a linux partition and after 10 days the trial expired. I went to uninstall the software, but every time I restarted my machine, I still got the trial expired message. So I did some googling and there is a script to uninstall it completely found in the knowledge base, but it was way too much of a hassle. Anyway, you gotta be able to sudo to run the commands, but here they are:

rm -rf /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/trial_expired_NTFS.plist

rm -rf /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.paragon.NTFS.trial.plist

rm -rf /Applications/Paragon\ NTFS\ for\ Mac\ OS\ X

rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/NTFS for Mac OS X"

rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Paragon"

rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Paragon\ NTFS\ for\ Mac\ OS\ X

rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/NTFSforMacOSX.prefPane

rm -rf /System/Library/Filesystems/ufsd_NTFS.fs