Checking Out an SVN Repository Over HTTP or HTTPS

To specify the proxy information for svn edit the servers file in the .subversion directory under Linux, or the Subversion directory under the user’s directory in Windows.

Add the following under the [global] section:

http-proxy-host = someurl.com
http-proxy-port = 80
http-proxy-username = uid
http-proxy-password = passwd
http-compression = no

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How To Install NoMachine’s NX Server and NX Client

Following is a quick howto for installing the NoMachine free version of NXServer:

. Make sure that you have a DNS entry for the hostname of your NX Server machine or an entry in the server’s /etc/hosts file that points to it’s IP.

. rpm -i nxclient-3.5.0-7.x86_64.rpm
. rpm -i nxnode-3.5.0-7.x86_64.rpm
. rpm -i nxserver-3.5.0-9.x86_64.rpm

. copy stock config file to server.cfg:
        . # cd /usr/NX/etc
        . # cp server.cfg server.cfg_oem
        . # cp server-redhat.cfg.sample server.cfg

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Solution for ‘Server configuration error. Cannot log in. Please contact your system administrator’ for NXServer/NXClient Session

I am setting up a vm running CentOS 6.2 and want to be able to connect to it via NXClient.

After doing the basic install and getting the key from the server I got the following error when trying to login on the client side:

Server configuration error. Cannot log in.  Please contact your system administrator

Looking at /var/log/messages on the server revealed the following (hostName is the name of the host for the machine, changed from the actual → Continue reading “Solution for ‘Server configuration error. Cannot log in. Please contact your system administrator’ for NXServer/NXClient Session”

Getting a Command Prompt as Administrator Under Windows Server 2008 and Probably Window 7

If you need to get a Windows command prompt as the Administrator do the following:

  • Click on ‘Start’
  • Type the following in the search/command input field:
  • runas /user:administrator cmd
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Java Project Template

Attached to this post is a tar.gz file that contains a complete template with which you can build a Java project.  It includes the directory structure, sample ant build.xml, logging configs, and shell scripts (and the beginnings of some Windows scripts) to run the program:

java_project_template/README.txt
java_project_template/conf/
java_project_template/conf/log4j.properties
java_project_template/lib/
java_project_template/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar
java_project_template/launch.sh
java_project_template/scripts/
java_project_template/scripts/run.sh
java_project_template/scripts/run.vbs
java_project_template/scripts/run.bat
java_project_template/src/
java_project_template/src/com/
java_project_template/src/com/ryanchapin/
java_project_template/src/com/ryanchapin/samples/
java_project_template/src/com/ryanchapin/samples/java/
java_project_template/src/com/ryanchapin/samples/java/Example.java

The ant build file will create a build/classes directory into which all of the Java .class files are compiled.  → Continue reading “Java Project Template”