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git: error pushing via HTTP (return code 22)

If you get a
error: Cannot access URL http://github.com/xxxxxxx/, return code 22
when trying to push changes to a git repository via HTTP.
This is probably because you are using an HTTP proxy to access the repo and that proxy doesn’t support WebDAV HTTP methods (especially PROPFIND). So when git issues a PROPFIND the http proxy [...]

Adding a Google Search Web Element to a Wordpress theme

The newly released Google Web element: custom search is awesome.

To add it to my wordpress theme (which doesn’t have a top sidebar for widgets) I had to edit (Appearance ⇒ Editor) the header.php file and add the snippet I got from Google there, at just at the end of the header.php. So the search web [...]

Template variables project.displayName and project.name don’t seem to work for Netbeans Platform Application projects

I just reported it to netbeans issuezilla issue 169074.
I was trying to use these variables as pointed out by Michal Hlavac in my post about templates. And then I realized that these variables don’t seem to work for Netbeans Plaform Application projects. Instead of the project name and display name they (the template variables, I [...]

How not to do a parcel tracking system

The SEUR tracking system in amazing in the wrong way.
I got a tracking number from a bike shop that dispatched a bike from spain to sweden.
Ok, so I go to http://www.seur.es (because http://seur.es didn’t work) and put my tracking number there. Nothing, the tracking number is not yet in the system. Disappointment number [...]

Firefox detecting wrong Java Plugin version on Windows.

First read this Mozillazine page
In my case the problem was that some program overwrote the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/JavaSoft/Java Runtime Environment/BrowserJavaVersion with the old value 1.6.0_01. When I set it back to 1.6.0_06 everything worked fine again.

Now the addons window looks like

before it showed Java Platform SE 6 U1 instead

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Got my new Apple Lanyard Headphones

Amazing, the swedish apple store dont sell the old Apple Lanyard Headphones, the ones that fits in both Apple 1st generation and 3rd generation.
And I cannot buy it from the US Apple store either, they just don’t let you to do so. So at the end I reverted to EBay and I found a [...]

“Reload in target plaform” is not working in Netbeans 6.1/6.5 RC2 in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

I filed a bug report
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=153354
It seems that it cannot find the inner class ResolvableHelper inside the TopComponent. (throws a NoClassDefFoundException, see the messages.log for details ). It’s funny though, because it works perfectly in Windows XP and Vista, I thought this stuff was platform independent.

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dropbox not syncing files

Today I fixed my dropbox installation on mac os x . It was not updating (sending) files from the Mac to the Dropbox servers. In fact it was sending new files to dropbox servers but some old files that were supposed to be on dropbox account were not synchonized and I couldn’t get Dropbox to [...]

Wireless Power Meters

I’ve been trying to find power meters for home. My criteria is that it has to support several sensors (because I want to know how much energy my computer and home cinema is spending) and it has to be wireless (because it more convinient this way). After researching a couple of hours, it doesn’t lok [...]

Voltcraft Energy Control 3000

An article on the Elektor magazine on home power meters caught my attention, particularly the wireless one. In the article they mention the Voltcraft Energy Control 3000, that is able to receive data (about energy consumption) from several sensor and can be connected to the pc via usb. The only problem is that [...]