Category Archives: Misc

I’m using Github 2FA and git on Windows with the Windows Credentials store credential helper. This can be configured with git config –global credential.helper wincred Couple of times git has suddenly started complaining “remote: Repository not found” when trying to … Continue reading →

I started investigating pairing problems with my Bose QC35 headphone/headset and Windows. At first I was wondering why I actually see two separate QC35 devices with different icons in the pairing list. Soon I figured out the other one was … Continue reading →

When creating a new project based on Maven archetype IntelliJ IDEA wants know certain Maven related directories. It took few minutes to figure out what IDEA actually wants here and answering wrong gives the not very informative “Maven home directory … Continue reading →

SPSS alternative, GNU PSPP include a very easy to use tool that can convert the SPSS SAV file to CSV. This can be further read in to excel. Just open the csv file in Excel. If excel does not automatically … Continue reading →

Too-long-don’t-want-to-read–give-me-commands-to-paste-to-my-terminal: sudo /usr/sbin/setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1 Long(er) story I ran into “interesting” problem on CentOS while trying to setup VsFTP with FTPS. I was using FileZilla to connect to the server. The VsFTPd version that comes with my CentOS version … Continue reading →

Drop something to the drawing surface, all other shapes freak out, running away from your new shape which you just wanted to throw in the background. Sounds familiar? If this something you don’t like, then disable connector splitting. Head to … Continue reading →

I recently ran into issues with a third party application that had certain issues with threadlocals. Namely certain parts of the application were using threadlocal to store information, but did not clean up the stored information. This information then caused … Continue reading →

I’m using multiple monitors and sometimes it would be useful to have hotkeys that would position the active window to certain place on certain screen. I took a quick look at ready made software but those did not seem to … Continue reading →

Few Windows 8 hotkeys I have found useful: Win Goto start screen, start typing application name to search for it Win-X Open advanced menu from bottom-left corner of screen (you can access this by right clicking mouse on same place) … Continue reading →

Creating new portlet project in Liferay IDE may result in NullPointerException and complaints about no IModelProvider being found for Dynamic Web Module 3.0. An example of the stack trace is below (you can see this in your $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.log -file). This … Continue reading →