Custom resources allow you to store server side values that are available to different J2EE applications on your server. This is an extremely useful feature that one should use. Head on over to the Glassfish admin panel (should be at localhost:4848 for most of you), go to Resources > JNDI > Custom Resources and...
Read more →Most people don’t know about this but if you head on over to the Google I/O, their 2013 event website shows big I/O images that you can click and it reads out the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’. Enter the right code and you get nice effects. Here’s a list of codes you can try...
Read more →TeraCopy is an amazing tool for Windows which allows users to queue up copy requests, pause them, re-order them and change copy file lists at run time. It’s got a lot of power and great integration with Windows. It’s a tool which I highly recommend. Go check it out! I bet that you’ll love...
Read more →There used to be a slightly long way to do this earlier but I found a simple one line command to do it. It is probably old but it’s one I didn’t know of. convert L: /fs:NTFS This converts L: to NTFS without removing any data from the drive. This process, all in all,...
Read more →I noticed that my old file list generator page didn’t have a valid link any more. Since I’d go through and upload it again, I guess it would be worth it to add some minor documentation and make the path variable optional as well :) Here are some sample scripts C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -command “& ‘C:\Users\Karun\My Scripts\filelist.ps1‘” C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -command “&...
Read more →Oh yes, it’s time I started uploading some of my old code to github. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while. For those unaware, I use Soccer Scraper to quickly view Manchester United’s schedule in IST. The base source code (circa 2008+minor fixes) is now on GitHub. There are tons of things that...
Read more →I realize that over the past 3 and a half years I haven’t blogged as much as I used it. It’s not because I had nothing to say but was mainly because most things I had worked on were things I wasn’t allowed to talk about in public (thanks to NDAs and policies I...
Read more →If you’re having issues buying anything on XBox 360 and doesn’t even let you login to xbox.com and it keeps kicking you out, there is a chance that one of the credit cards you have stored on record is invalid. If you read the XBox help on how to remove a payment option, they ask...
Read more →I finally took the time out to move away from WordPress into my own server. It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally here! I hope this will stop issues for WordPress caused by shared hosting. If it doesn’t, it’s out with WordPress :) I ported over data and my database after cleaning...
Read more →This is a really old trick for Universal Flash Drives (UFDs) and I’ve been using it for years. I just thought I should document the steps so it’s available as quick reference for me :) Insert your UFD and make sure all your data is backed up because we’re going to format it. Run...
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