Author: rchapin

My parent’s Win XP box became infected with Desktop Security 2010 and I was tasked with it’s removal and cleanup.

Following are the steps that I took, some of which required some additional digging and experimentation that was not in the top 10 or so search results.

The first hurdle was to actually get access to the Windows Desktop.

In this case when the machine booted to Windows the Desktop Security 2010 program would essentially take over the machine. I → Continue reading “How To Remove Desktop Security 2010”

The following is a how to on getting putty set up putty on a Win XP box to enable you use an RSA (or DSA) private/public key pair to connect to a linux server over SSH.

• Generate your keys on the linux server to which you want to connect.

• SSH to your server
• go to your home directory .ssh/
• Enter the following command to generate the key pair:

• # ssh-keygen -t rsa
• Enter a passphrase for your keys

This will → Continue reading “Setting Up SSH Keys to Connect from Windows to a Linux Server with Putty”

When you want to search for the dot (.) character in a regular expression and not use it as a metacharacter use the following syntax:

String regexPattern = “[.]”;→ Continue reading “Searcing for a dot "." character with a Java Regular Expression”

With Java 5.0 enums became much more powerful, click here for an overview.

I am working on a project that is using an enum to keep track of an attribute of one of my objects and wanted to initialize a HashMap inline in the call to the enum’s constructor. Such was my delight to find out that using a simple initializer block that it was a snap.

Here is the relevant snippet of code that illustrates the syntax:

public → Continue reading “Java In-line Initialization of a Map in the Constructor of an Enum Constant”

http://www.w3schools.com/wsdl/wsdl_intro.asp→ Continue reading “An Introduction to WSDL”

http://www.w3schools.com/SOAP/soap_intro.asp→ Continue reading “An Introductoin to SOAP”

Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO: Language-Specific Issues, 10.6. Java → Continue reading “A Few Key Guidelines for Secure Java Programming”

This is quite incredible. A purely Javascript Flash Player. Here are some examples.

I think that projects like this are simply proof that the days of Flash and it’s plugin based virtual machine in a browser are numbered. Along with jQuery and a host of other Javascript frameworks that are being built, once HTML 5 browsers are in the majority there will be many more options for multimedia content/interactivity on a page than Flash. → Continue reading “Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG)”

While learning Java I came accross the “final” keyword and wasn’t quite sure what it meant.

Here is a good article that explains it and it’s appropriate usage. → Continue reading “A Great Article About the "final" Keyword in Java”

On the SWT FAQ there is a how-to for compiling a 64 bit version of SWT for Eclipse, however, it is currently incorrect and took a bit of research and experimentation to sort out.

Here is how to do it (I have copied the original how-to and made edits where appropriate.

In this case, I am using Eclipse 3.5.1 under Kubuntu 9.04.

In this how-to you will extract the SWT source from the CVS repository and build your own binaries.→ Continue reading “Compiling a 64 bit version of SWT for Eclipse”