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Migrating a Java Application from the Stone Age

• Check classpath ordering (readdir works differently on Solaris, which can be very upsetting for your java application.
• Things that have **classpath/*** can be upset.
• Oracle RBMS: JDBC Driver. Lots of older java apps were using classes12.zip which wont work with Oracle 10/11.
• Stuck with old JRE version. Old JRE Version does not work on new Linux because Libc RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 to RHEL6, RHEL7.
• They lost the source code! (can’t rebuild recompile easily). How did this Big 5 ever win a contract. Unless you contracted with them to lose the source code.
• The IPv6 thing. -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true has fixed the web server not listening problem. It was listening only on the IPv6 address on linux. This had never been a problem because even though Solaris was invented in the stone age it was configured with IPv6.
• WebApp Servers like Weblogic/Websphere that have utilities that use Jython/Jruby could be a life saver.
• If it's going in a do

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Microsoft Access

MS Access 97 cannot export CSV files.

Reregister the mstext35.dll file by running a cmd window and cd to c:\windows\system32 then run regsrv32.exe mstext35.dll. Click "ok" when it says it has reregisted the dll.

MS Access Text Export

File, Save As/Export, To an External File Change Save as type to "Text Files"

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Chrome Profiles

Matching profile numbers with names

We want to be able to start a Chrome session with the profile of a particular user

cat /Users/${USER}/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Local\ State  |
jq -r ' .profile.info_cache | . '

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Select all tickboxes in a browser screen

Chrome Developer Tools/Mozilla Developer tools.

Go to the console and paste:

$$('input[type="checkbox"').map(i => i.checked = true)

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# perl octal permission printer
perl -e 'printf "%04o %s\n", (stat)[2] & 07777, $_ for @ARGV' *

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
import pyperclip

def redact_github_tokens(text):
    # Patterns for GitHub tokens (Personal Access Tokens, fine-tuned tokens, etc.)
    # Example formats:
    # - ghp_xxx... (Personal Access Token)
    # - github_pat_xxx... (Fine-grained)
    # - gho_xxx..., ghs_xxx..., ghr_xxx..., etc.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
import pyperclip
# pip install pyperclip

def redact_github_tokens(text):
    # Patterns for GitHub tokens (Personal Access Tokens, fine-tuned tokens, etc.)
    # Example formats:
    # - ghp_xxx... (Personal Access Token)
    # - github_pat_xxx... (Fine-grained)