Keep Your Gnome Desktop Awake
These little bash snippets tell you how long in seconds before your screen locks and how to keep your screen from going to sleep. This is for Gnome 3 in Linux. To find the time in seconds before your...
View ArticleHash File Using POCO
This is the first time I have had to create MD5 hashes for files in C++. I did find a library called POCO that has some very handy classes for doing this. I didn’t want to copy and paste code from...
View ArticleRefresh Icon Cache In Windows 7
This keeps me from having to reboot: C:\Windows\system32\ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache
View ArticleValidate Windows User On Network In C++
Need to validate and/or impersonate a user on a Windows domain? I Googled for this a bit but the API call is fairly simple so here is a quick snippet: [code language=cpp] HANDLE htoken = nullptr; DWORD...
View ArticleHow To Clean SVN Checkout Directory
I just love git clean -xfd but you just don’t get that with Subversion. Instead from your Bash shell (or Cygwin) prompt you can do: svn status --no-ignore | egrep '^[?I]' | cut -c9- | sudo xargs -d \\n...
View ArticleHex Encode/Decode String In C#
The same code is posted all over the news groups and Internet, but here it is, easy as a snippet for myself and for you to use. I don’t even get credit for this as what I have pretty much matches up to...
View ArticleHack Classpath In Gradle
I recently tried this to fix the Classpath in Gradle for compiling and testing. Works for compiling, bombs for the testing though. The Gradle plugin integration using jna-3.2.7 blows up during unit...
View ArticleMake Bamboo Shell Task Run Using Bash
Bamboo will call shell tasks on *nix agents using sh as opposed to Bash. For Debian agents, this means dash not bash. So, how do we redirect to bash? I found this snippet: [code language=”bash”] if [...
View ArticleWiFi From Linux Rescue CD
Using Finnix 111 rescue CD: Generate wpa_supplicant.conf configuration file: # wpa_passphrase ssid passphrase > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf If you have any funky characters like ‘@’ in your passphrase,...
View ArticleMultiple Oracle Javas On Windows – No Installs
Whether you want a portable JDK or you just don’t want to further muck up your Windows %PATH%, you can get a older or newer Java on your Windows machine without affecting other versions. I found a link...
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Python Install On Windows – My Opinionated Approach
This is an opinionated approach to installing Python obtained from Python.org on Windows. Essentially, install per-user and keep Python out of the system or PATH environment variable. I’ll show you how...
View ArticleGit File Based Repos
Sometimes you may need to keep code in a Git repo, but don’t have a nice web based backend like GitHub available yet to push your source into. A workaround can be to start with a file based repo that...
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Installing Git On Windows – My Opinionated Approach
Download the installer from git-scm.com. Use a 64 bit version for a 64 bit operating system. The install sequence and comments are detailed below. Information Select Destination Location Select...
View ArticleKickstarter Collection
Here is my kickstarter link collection, a collection of links to help you get applications, application features, build and test environments, up and running, smashing learning curves along the way...
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