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I recently bought a Panasonic HC-V750 camcorder and I was intrigued by the additional files (.cont, pmpd and .tmb) it produces along with the video files – do they contain useful additional data?. A good googling didn’t turn up anything…
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XMarks vs Chrome Means You Lose
Yah, I’ve just managed to lose all of my important bookmarks thanks to a fight between Chrome and XMarks. To be fair this is a known issue but it’s easy to accidentally cause the problem and the only loser in…
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VirtualBox Additions on the Cloudera Training Machine
I was playing with the Cloudera training virtual machine (as supplied by the Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce course over on Coursera) today and I installed it into VirtualBox as suggested by the instructor notes. I must have hit every pot-hole…
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Only detected a i686
One of the servers I manage is currently running Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) but in a little over a month 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) will be making an appearance. Now there’s no good reason for me to be rushing out an…
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UIInstructions cannot be cast
I f, like me, you are getting an error message along the lines of “UIInstructions cannot be cast to org.primefaces.model.menu.MenuElement” you are in luck because here’s the answer.
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TransformerFactor AbstractMethodError
This little hint is perhaps a bit vague but it’s not completely clear where the problem lies but I know what fixed it.
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Test Credit Card Numbers
A while back now I had to write a system to process credit cards. Since the software was capturing the card number itself it could perform some initial checking on the number to ensure that the user hadn’t made a…
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Joomla and PageSpeed
A while back I installed the PageSpeed module for Apache in an effort to improve my sites performance. How much of an affect it has is debatable but the site scores more highly on the Google PageSpeed score which is…
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Subtle Subversion Problem
Here’s a problem you don’t see everyday which really shows up the stupidity of the whole case sensitive / insensitive filesystem battle between Windows and Unix like operating systems. Fortunately a lot of work has been done to make the…
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JavaFX 2 with JPA 2 and Drag and Drop – Part 3
This article will cover a method that can be used to include more than one entity type in a tree (the same system will work for other widgets such as lists and tables) by using a proxy holder. The previous…
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Installing mod_pagespeed on Ubuntu
The mod_pagespeed extension is designed to reduce the load time of pages on a web site by performing certain optimizations such as optimizing images and minifying CSS and JavaScript. This guide covers installing mod_pagespeed on an Apache server running under…
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JavaEE 7 – A First Look
Now that JavaEE 7 is out of the starting blocks and running free I thought I’d have a first look. I decided that as I’ve not had a look at the JavaEE tutorial for a while I’d work my way…