On Technology and Faith

Bash Sending a Process to Background

thomas — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:36:33 +0000

Just to remind myself. To send a process to the background.

Hit Ctrl + z (This basically suspends the process)
jobs -l (Will list all the process)
bg
fg
At any point of time you cant type jobs -l to list all the process

That’s all there is to it.

Artificial!!

thomas — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:46:27 +0000

Saw this image about the distinction between artificial and natural on Abstruse Goose. Makes you think

Artifical vs Natural

An unusual Bar Mitzvah Speech

thomas — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:48:43 +0000

Entries missing in pom.xml after appfuse:fullsource

thomas — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:33:17 +0000

3.1.0
3.0.5.RELEASE
2.0.3
1.6.10
1.3
2.6
1.4
2.3.1
2.4.3
2.2.0
3.1
1.1.2
2.3.3
2.4.2
2.0-cr-1
1.6.1
3.6.1.Final
1.4
1.8.3
1.2.16
2.0.3

Train Runs over Crazy Kid probably indian

thomas — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:26:28 +0000

Just saw this video of a kid lying down between railway tracks and a train speeds over him. The scene looks very Indian however I am not able to confirm that.
This guy would probably lie low with the crackdown on the train surfing kids in Mumbai anyway this video is worth a watch.
Saw this video first on Break.com but got a youtube version from freakapedia.com

Low cost Tatoo Removal

thomas — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:57:54 +0000

I do not know what motivates people to put a permanent mark based on a relationship that is very dynamic. Just saw this video of a person who got the tattoo of his ex-girlfriend removed (the hard way).
Watch this video only if you must. It got me squirming in my seat.

Insane Tattoo Removal – Watch more Funny Videos

Open Reports JXLS and Column Alias

thomas — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:16:41 +0000

Recently I tried doing a report in Open Reports using JXLS. In my query I had used alias for columns and these columns would just not appear in the result.

After digging in the sourceforge forums I found this thread

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oreports/forums/forum/187722/topic/1913461

It tells us that it is a problem with mysql connector and we should use “?useOldAliasMetadataBehavior=true” after the jdbc url

This is what is mentioned in the post.

Most likely you must be using MySQL Connector/J 5.1.x and it must be due to some upgrade issues http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-installing-upgrading.html#connector-j-installing-upgrading-5-1 , but it worked for me when I put ?useOldAliasMetadataBehavior=true at the end of connection url in DataSources, so when you specify connection url for datasources it should look like jdbc:mysql://serverName:3306/databaseName?useOldAliasMetadataBehavior=true

Finally it works.

Maven Install

thomas — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:50:49 +0000

In Case you do not have a perticular Library in you maven repository the command to install is as foll:
mvn install:install-file \n
-DgroupId= \n
-DartifactId= \n
-Dversion= \n
-Dpackaging= \n
-Dfile=/path/to/file

Example:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=apache-discovery -DartifactId=commons-discovery -Dversion=0.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

Javascript to retrieve Password

thomas — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:19:46 +0000

Below is the javascript required to retrieve a password from a page.
If the page displays a field marked with ******* in one of the fields copy the below javascript, delete the contents in the address bar paste the javascript and hit enter. As simple as that.



javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j

Technology! Blackberry’s not working.

thomas — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:26:58 +0000