Chris Searle

When importing a maven pom that uses the gmaven plugins - remember to go into project structure settings and set src/main/groovy as sources and src/test/groovy as test sources.

I'd also like to know why on import of a project that has had mvn install run on it causes Idea to have issues about generated source mismatch etc - mvn clean then a rebuild in Idea will fix this but I can't pin down what is not right.

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Application for residence delivered over the counter to Oslo police: 22nd sep.

Letter confirming receipt 24th oct.

So - over a month to get from the counter to the in-tray - *sigh* - wonder how long the handling will take this year.

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A good source of entropy is needed for random number generation. This affects services that go via SSL amongst other things.

However - in 2.6.x kernels the entropy sources of a system were reduced - as far as I can see it now is only affected by keyboard, mouse and some IRQ interrupts.

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Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?

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When you install grub to debian and forget to run update-grub the first time before you reboot then there is no menu.lst file in /boot/grub so you boot to the grub shell

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Instead of using a self-signed certificate with glassfish (see Creating new SSL keys with keytool for glassfish) - we want to use one that is signed by a certificate authority.

Based on http://blogs.sun.com/enterprisetechtips/entry/using_ssl_with_glassfish_v2

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I've been using self-signed certificates for a while - but - that means getting the users to approve them each time they change. Instead - lets generate a Certificate Authority (CA) certificate with a reasonably long life - get them to install that and then new certificates signed with that will be valid for them.

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I needed to generate a new certificate for glassfish's admin pages.

Instead of using the normal OpenSSL self-signed certificate it was easier just to use the java keystore keytool

keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias
<alias_referred_to_in_glassfish>
-keystore glassfish/domains/domain1/config/keystore.jks
-storepass changeit

Note the -keyalg RSA - keytool by default uses DSA and firefox 3.0 will not accept this even with an added security exception.

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Version 2.0 and 2.1 (small bugfix release of 2.0) of the grails pastebin was released today. Features include:

• Codebase is now internationalized (i18n)
• User friendly URLs

Links

• Running instance: http://dev.chrissearle.net/paste/
• Support: https://dev.chrissearle.net/jira/browse/GRPASTEBIN/
• Wiki: https://dev.chrissearle.net/confluence/display/GRPASTEBIN/Home

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Version 1.0 of the grails pastebin was released today. Features include:

• Multiple language highlighting support
• Expiring pastes (optional)

Links

• Running instance: http://dev.chrissearle.net/paste/
• Support: https://dev.chrissearle.net/jira/browse/GRPASTEBIN/
• Wiki: https://dev.chrissearle.net/confluence/display/GRPASTEBIN/Home
• Source code: https://dev.chrissearle.net/mercurial/grpastebin

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