Author ArchiveSo when I don’t think my FIOS pipe can get better, I contact Verizon to “renegotiate” my current package deal. Come to find out they don’t even have my Internet speed plan anymore. So I see what options I have. The funny thing is I save an Abe for HD, and use that to upgrade my speed plan. So now I get 25/25 instead of the old 20/5. Talk about a difference! Well, of course you have to validate it!
What can I say, Comcrap never provided service like that. They kept increasing the monthly bill and I kept getting less! Verizon please keep up the quality! Tags: FIOS, Internet, Speed, Verizon
Jan
08
2011
Windows 7 NTP Time Synchronization – DailyPosted by Don Hass in hardware, microsoft, softwareSo I have a machine that even replacing the RT Clock battery, seems to have a serious issue keeping time accurate. Well of course Windows 7 by default (if not on a domain) tries to call NTP server (normally time.windows.com) once a week to update the time. That was not good enough for the machine in question. So how do you go about changing to say sync everyday? Well instead of me writing up the solution, I found an awesome write up that you have to use if you have the same problem. It works like a charm and the writeup is excellent! Pretentious Name Time Sync Fix (http://www.pretentiousname.com/timesync/index.html) If you need this same solution I did, no extra software need, just go follow the instructions and you are set to go in Windows 7. It should be noted that this really would not apply to a machine on a Window AD domain since machines try to sync with the AD primary forest servers due to the need of time accuracy as part of the domain and machines on the domain. Happy time syncing! Tags: daily, ntp, sync, time, windows 7Happy New Year and may this year be even better than last year! So first I love Intellij IDEA IDE (not for just Java anymore). I find it one of the best tools (in the EAP version) to work with Adobe Flex (much better than Adobe’s solutions) as long as you don’t need a visual Flex editor. It is not a IDE for a wimpy machine though. It has gotten way slower over the years, but it does a zillion more things than versions ago. What I love even more, is the new features and UI enhancements they have made in IDEA X (Early Access Program version): Idea X EAP It’s code complete takes a major step forward in this new build! Few quirks still, but it is EAP, but it really is setting the stage for a huge upgrade in my book. With all that IDE gushing over, there has always been something that annoyed me. For classes that are Serializable, you would think it would have an intention for creating an actual serialVersionUID. I am not going to get into whether your should create serialVersionUID or not in your Serializable classes since we could have an entire debate over the pro’s and con’s. What I want to talk about is that IDEA does have this (not limited to the EAP, but at least 9 as well). So for those who care, this is what I discovered after actually looking in the intentions available this week. All the following screen snaps are from IDEA X since that is my mainstay these days. Can’t go back to 9 any longer. Now for Steps for enabling IDEA to generate serialVersionUIDs via intentions. 1. Click the Code Inspection icon from the lower right portion of IDEA. The one displayed like the little guy with a black hat on. 2. Click the Configure inspections link to see the Inspections dialog box. 3. You should now see the following window: 4. Find the Inspections -> Serialization issues -> Serializable class without ‘serialVersionUID’. 5. Check the serialVersionUID options (I highlighted in the above snap). Your choice to select all four (4) that I did or not. 6. Click OK to close the Inspections dialog box. Now, when editing a Serializable class without a serialVersionUID, it will display a warning on the class name and an inspection suggestion to generate the unique serialVersionUID for you. Viola! And to think I started out thinking I was going to need a plugin or something, it was there all along. Thank JetBrains! Tags: classes, idea, intentions, java, Serializable, serialVersionUID |







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