OSX Dock magnification/menus/hot corners not working!

Moved the Wireless mouse/keyboard dongle to the other input on the KVM switch.  Problem solved!

Zebra Printer Problems

I arrived at this script.  It works on a Gx420t with Factory defaults.  It’s not exactly what I was aiming for, but it’s pretty close. 

^XA

^LT10    //Label Top.  Sets the top edge of the label (determined experimentally)

^PW200   //Print Width.  Sets the left edge of the label (determined experimentally)

^LH10,15 //Label Home.  Offsets from left and top edges from which fields positions are relative to.

^PR2     //Print Rate.  2 is the slowest setting

^MD30    //Media Darkness.  Set to maximum darkness

^BY1     //Set the barcode bar-width to 1 dot … If not set, the previous setting will be used.  The factory default is too big for this label.

^FO0,0^BCN,26,N,N,N,N^FD%s^FS

^FO0,30^A0,20,17^FD%s^FS

^FO0,50^A0,20,17^FD%s^FS

^XZ

Some key insights:

a)      the gx420t has lower resolution(203dpi) than the gx430t (300dpi), so all positions and sizes needed to be determined again.  Multiplying everything by 2/3 was insufficient…I had to do it experimentally.  

b)      Some settings persist between print jobs (examples: ^PW, ^BY).  The printer maintains state between jobs.  Not all of the printers state is visible through the web interface.  It’s important to develop and test your scripts against a printer with factory default settings.  To restore factory defaults you must apply ‘restore default settings’ AND then power-cycle the printer.

I was looking for quick way to 'encrypt' an integer into another integer.  I tried a few things:

I tried using Java Ciphers with 32-bit block size ( ex. "DES/OFB32/NoPadding")

I couldn't make Ciphers work.  The encrypted integers that were returned were not sufficiently distributed in the integer domain....probably because I was doing something wrong... I didn't have time to figure it out.  See java code snippet at the bottom of the message.

I found this code snipped implementing a Fiestel Network

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pseudo_encrypt

I made the changes recommended by J. Jancar to implement this:

-- Function: pseudo_encrypt(integer)

-- DROP FUNCTION pseudo_encrypt(integer);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pseudo_encrypt(value integer)
  RETURNS integer AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
l1 int;
l2 int;
r1 int;
r2 int;
i int:=0;
BEGIN
 l1:= (VALUE >> 16) & 65535;
 r1:= VALUE & 65535;
 WHILE i < 3 LOOP
   l2 := r1;
   r2 := l1 # ((((1366.0 * r1 + 150889) % 714025) / 714025.0) * 32767)::int;
   l1 := l2;
   r1 := r2;
   i := i + 1;
 END LOOP;
 RETURN ((r1 << 16) + l1);
END;
$BODY$
  LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE STRICT
  COST 100;
ALTER FUNCTION pseudo_encrypt(integer)
  OWNER TO thyroid;




Tested x = f(f(x)) on 4 million positive integers, works.

Translated to Java:

    public static int pseudoEncrypt(int data) {
        int l1 = (data >> 16) & 65535;
        int r1 = data & 65535;
        for (int i = 0; i<3 br="" i="">            int l2 = r1;
            //Don't change these constants until and unless we understand this better
            int r2 = l1 ^ (int)((((1366.0 * r1 + 150889) % 714025) / 714025.0) * 32767);
            l1 = l2;
            r1 = r2;
        }
        return (r1 << 16) + l1;
    }

Tested x = f(f(x))Java integers.  Works.




    @Test
    public void test3() throws Exception {
        for (int i=0; i<1000 br="" i="">       
            final String keyString = "YKQ22ROLDQYU6===";
            final String ivParametersString = "TOSHCB6GRJBLC===";
           
            byte[] data = ByteBuffer.allocate(4).putInt(i).array();
   
            SecretKey secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(base32.decode(keyString), "DES");
            final IvParameterSpec iv = new IvParameterSpec(base32.decode(ivParametersString));
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/OFB32/NoPadding");
       
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey, iv);
            //IvParameterSpec iv = new IvParameterSpec(base32.decode(ivDataString));
            byte[] encryptedData = cipher.doFinal(data);
            int intEncrypted = ByteBuffer.wrap(encryptedData).getInt();
           
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, secretKey, iv);
            byte[] decryptedData = cipher.doFinal(encryptedData);
   
            Assert.assertArrayEquals(data, decryptedData);
            int intDecrypted = ByteBuffer.wrap(decryptedData).getInt();
            System.out.printf("%s %s %s%n", i, intEncrypted, intDecrypted);
        }
    }

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Remote Debugging Tomcat running as a Windows Service

To enable Remote Debugging in Tomcat7 running as a service



1. Run %TOMCAT_HOME/bin/Tomcat7w.exe
( ex. C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\bin)

2. Java Tab

3. Add these to 'Java Options' before the -D options


-Xdebug
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n


4. Apply

5. Start Tomcat service

Upgrading Postgres 9.1 to 9.2

Had PostgreSQL 9.1 installed
Installed PostgreSQL 9.2, disint application and data directory.

Changed postgres instance password in pgAdminIII,  then couldn't log in.
        Set connection Method to trust in pg_hba.conf
        Connect with pgAdmin
        Right Click Login Roles >> postgres
        Uncheck Account expires


Tried to run pg_upgrade:

C:\Users\mmuller\PostgreSQL>"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin\pg_upgrade.exe"  --old-datadir data --new-datadir 9.2/data --old-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\bin" --new-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin" -u postgres

Many problems.  Solutions:

      Grant Firewall permission to PostgreSQL server (windows control panel)
      Set connection Method to trust in pg_hba.conf (both old and new data directories)
      Be sure to set -u postgres

HP D4620 Reinstallation

My HP D4620 crapped out on me this weekend.  Returned it to Costco. Bought another.

First mistake, tried to set up with my old Ink Cartridges.  No,no.  Printer wouldn't set up with them, nor would it let me take out the old cartridges.  I don't know what I did to finally get them out and install the new ones.

Did a few other things to get Scan To Computer working:

Update Firmware
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=219&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5191646#N332

HP Officejet Full Feature Software and Drivers - Mac OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, OS X 10.8
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-107215-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=219&product=5191646&sw_lang=

Now Scan To Computer Works.

Eclipselink Postgres GeneratedValue strategy=Identity not compatible with HistoryPolicy

I wanted to do this in my Eclipselink/Postgres application:
       
        TABLE
    -------------------
    ID SERIAL NOT NULL

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column
    private long id;

This produces exceptions upon persist().   I think it's this bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=347539

 Solution is to do this

        TABLE
    -------------------
    ID SERIAL NOT NULL

 It's important to know that SERIAL implicitly creates a sequence named TABLE_ID_SEQ.  So I can use strategy=SEQUENCE to use it:

    @Id
    @SequenceGenerator(name="table_id_seq", allocationSize=1)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=SEQUENCE, generator="table_id_seq")
    @Column
    private long id;

It's important to include allocationSize=1, otherwise Eclipselink will start using nextval() - 50 as the next ID... producing Primary Key conflicts upon persist.