ant hsqldbutil

you get in lib an additional hsqldbutil jar. With the hsqldb.jar, the hsqldbutil.jar and and mysql connector jar in my classpath i tried the Database Manager (From Tools menu choose transfer) from hsql with no luck. The MySQL Migration Toolkit has reached the EOL phase but works perfect for me. After downloading add the hsqldb jar to the lib folder C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Tools for 5.0\java\lib. I update as well the mysql connector to the latest one.

1. Start your hsqldb server from command line
1. java -cp hsqldb-1.8.0.10.jar org.hsqldb.Server -database <path to your hsqldb files>\<database name>
2. Start MySQL Migration Toolkit
3. Choose direct migration
4. Choose as Source a generic jdbc
5. Enter “org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver” as classname
6. Enter “jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost” as connection string
7. Enter “sa” as username and leave password empty
8. click next
9. Configure your mysql connection
10. click next
11. choose public as schema
12. click next several time till screen “object creation options”
13. choose “create script file..” instead of “create objects online”
14. click next several time till screen “data mapping options”
15. choose “create script file..” instead of “transfer data online”
16. click next several time till screen “Summary”
17. click finish

With the sql you can use tools like phpmyadmin or the mysql workbench to import your data into the mysql server.

get-service

list all windows service with their status, short – and display name. Create a new File startVMWare.ps1 and paste the following

foreach ($svc in Get-Service){
  if(($svc.displayname.StartsWith("VMware")) -AND ($svc.Status -eq "Stopped")) {
    echo $svc.DisplayName
    Start-Service $svc.name
  }
}

Sign the script as shown in my previous post to run self signed scripts. Run the script in an powershell with administrator rights.

.\startVMWare.ps1

The script starts only stopped VMWare services. To run this script directly you can write a small dos file startVMWare.cmd with the following content

powershell -file <FULL PATH TO YOUR SCRIPT>\startVMWare.ps1

Start the Dos file with right click and admin rights to execute the vmware start powershell script.

echo "hello world"

Save the content in a file called hello.ps1. Start the powershell by searching for powershell in the windows 7 search box above the start button and with right click to run as administrator. Change the current folder with cdto the one where you saved your first powershell script. Run your script with

.\hello.ps1

Unfortunately you get a PSSecurityException because powershell script execution is controlled by an security policy. Like Java signed jars you must sign your scripts and set the policy to execute only signed scripts

Set-ExecutionPolicy Restricted

Powershell accepts self signed certificates and can be created by the makecert command. Makecert is part of the windows SDK. Download the installer and run through the wizard steps. At the last screen deselect all parts and check only the tools under first section called Windows Native Code Development. Open a command shell with shift and right click on the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin. Enter the following commands to create a authority:

makecert -n "CN=PowerShell Local Certificate Root" -a sha1 -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3 -r -sv root.pvk root.cer -ss Root -sr localMachine

and the following command to create a self signed certificate

makecert -pe -n "CN=PowerShell User" -ss MY -a sha1 -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3 -iv root.pvk -ic root.cer

The following command in the powershell show your created certificate:

Get-ChildItem cert:\CurrentUser\My -codesign

Now we can sign our first script with the following command

Set-AuthenticodeSignature .\hello.ps1 @(Get-ChildItem cert:\CurrentUser\My -codesigning)[0]

Run now your signed script with

.\hello.ps1

with prints

hello world

Powershell scripts can use profile scripts to store common functions for own scripts, functions,.. Enter the following command to your standard profile file

$profile

Open the file or create it with a text editor and paste the following

function sign ($filename) {
 $cert = @(gci cert:\currentuser\my -codesigning)[0]
 Set-AuthenticodeSignature $filename $cert
 }

Sign the profile file

Set-AuthenticodeSignature $profile @(Get-ChildItem cert:\CurrentUser\My -codesigning)[0]

Write now your own little powershell script like test.ps1. The sign function can now be used like this

sign .\test1.ps1

The setup was made under ubuntu 11.10 with the following prerequisites:

• CATALINA_HOME is /usr/share/tomcat7
• JAVA_HOME is /usr/lib/jvm/default-java
• HOSTNAME in my case is ubuntu-vm.localdomain

1. apt-get install libapache2-mod-jk
2. nano /etc/apache2/workers.properties with the following contents

workers.tomcat_home=/usr/share/tomcat7
workers.java_home=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
ps=/
worker.list=ajp13
worker.ajp13.port=8009
worker.ajp13.host=localhost
worker.ajp13.type=ajp13
worker.ajp13.lbfactor=1

1. nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/jk.conf with the following contents

        # Where to find workers.properties
        JkWorkersFile /etc/apache2/workers.properties
        # Where to put jk shared memory
        JkShmFile     /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.shm
        # Where to put jk logs
        JkLogFile     /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
        # Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
        JkLogLevel    info
        # Select the timestamp log format
        JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "
        # solr redirect
        JkMount /solr* ajp13

1. less /etc/apache2/mods-available/jk.load to see the following contents
1. LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_jk.so
2. run a2enmod jk to see if mod_jk is enabled
1. Module jk already enabled
3. less /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/server.xml to see a line like this
1. <Connector port=”8009″ protocol=”AJP/1.3″ redirectPort=”8443″ />
4. nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and insert a line into the virtualHost:80 section
1. JKMountCopy On
5. restart apache2 with service apach2 restart
6. Open a browser on your client to open http://ubuntu-vm.localdomain/solr/admin/

This short howto show you run solr with the current Tomcat 7 version:

1. Download Solr as Zip
2. Unzip it e.g. in /usr/share/ with folder structure
1. mv apache-solr-3.5.0.zip /usr/share
2. cd /usr/share
3. unzip apache-solr-3.5.0.zip
4. result is a folder /usr/share/apache-solr-3.5.0
3. Create a new folder e.g /usr/share/solr as base folder for the configuration
1. cp -a /usr/share/apache-solr-3.5.0/example/solr /usr/share/solr
2. cp /usr/share/apache-solr-3.5.0/dist/*.war /usr/share/solr
3. ln -s /usr/share/solr/apache-solr-3.5.0.war /usr/share/solr.war
4. mkdir /usr/share/solr/data< for index data/li>
5. mkdir /usr/share/solr/lib for additional jars
6. cp /usr/share/apache-solr-3.5.0/dist/apache-solr-velocity-3.5.0.jar /usr/share/solr/lib
7. cp -a /usr/share/apache-solr-3.5.0/contrib/ /usr/share/solr/
8. nano /usr/share/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml and change the lib settings

// ...


  

1. chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/share/solr if tomcat server runs as user tomcat
4. Add URIEncoding to tomcat connector settings
1. nano /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/server.xml
2. search for the connector on port 8080
3. add the URIEncoding like this:
5. Create a tomcat configuration file for solr (CATALINA_HOME is /usr/share/tomcat7)
1. cd /usr/share/tomcat7/conf
2. mkdir Catalina (if not exists)
3. cd Catalina
4. mkdir localhost (if not exists)
5. cd localhost
6. nano solr.xml
6. Paste the following configuration and save the file

1. Set properties for tomcat and solr inside /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/setenv.sh
2. Paste the following configuration and save the file

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsolr.solr.home=/usr/share/solr"
export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsolr.data.dir=/usr/share/solr/data"
export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsolr.velocity.enabled=true"
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"

1. (Re)start tomcat
1. /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart
2. Open browser and go to http://YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME:8080/solr/admin/ assuming that tomcat runs under default port 8080

I use the provided sample xml files to see if import and query functionality works:

1. cd /usr/share/apache-solr-3.5.0/example/exampledocs
2. nano post.sh
3. change the URL parameter to your environment e.g. to URL=http://localhost:8080/solr/update
4. ./post.sh *.xml
5. Open the admin ui under http://YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME:8080/solr/admin/
6. click the search button

see my follow up post for Configuring solr, tomcat 7 with mod_jk and apache 2.2

First step is to define in the build section of your pom.xml the cargo plugin:

	org.codehaus.cargo
	cargo-maven2-plugin
	1.1.4
	
		
			tomcat6x
			remote
		
		
			runtime

				
				${cargo.manager.url}
				${cargo.username}
				${cargo.password}
			
		
		
			remote
			
				
					${project.groupId}
					${project.artifactId}
					war

						${project.artifactId}
					
				
			
		
	

Notice the variables with the url and the credentials. The will filled with the used profile section for the build:

		tomcat6x_remote
		
			true
		

			http://ubuntu-vm.localdomain:8080/manager
			tomcat
			tomcat
		
	

		tomcat6x_ide

			http://localhost:9999/manager
			tomcat
			tomcat
		
	

The activeByDefault settings marks the remote section as default profile if nothing is set by command line parameters.

With

mvn org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-maven2-plugin:redeploy

you first undeploy the current application and then deploy the new build application to the remote tomcat instance. The command line parameter-Ptomcat6x_ide force maven to use the local tomcat instance for deployments.

mvn -Ptomcat6x_ide org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-maven2-plugin:redeploy

Hudson or Jenkins as continuous integration server can then be setup to use a primary project with the goal “clean deploy” to have a full test and maven repo deployment on success. The seconday project have the goal “clean package org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-maven2-plugin:redeploy -Dmaven.test.skip=true”. Inside the configuration of the primary job is the section with post build actions. Define here the secondary project to be build only on success of the primary build. Deployments can go wrong and should not have any effect on the primary build. Build trigger for the primary project is source code changes checked every minute (“* * * * *” as time plan). Changes by each developer force a complete junit and integration test of the module and new deployed artifacts inside the maven repo like nexus for the rest of the team. A little bit later is then the new application ready to use. With different profiles is it possible to define DEV,QA and PROD target server inside one maven project pom.

Tomcat needs credentials of a user with explicit rights granted for successful remote deployments. See the following excerpt of the tomcat-user.xml inside the conf folder of your tomcat instance:

Out of the box is Firefox 3.x and no Google Chrome installed.

Steps to install Google Chrome 16 (as root)

Steps to install Firefox 9 (as before as root).

To install the Virtual box Guest Additions:

1. yum update
2. yum install gcc
3. yum install kernel-devel
4. Mount Guest Additions iso image
5. Run autostart on the cd
6. Enter root password
7. After install reboot vm

Vodafone UK

Android Hilfe (german)

Vodafone Germany (german): 1 / 2

The short term solution is to install the “GPS Test” app from the market and do the following steps:

1. Hold the power button  (optional)
2. Disable data transfer (optional)
3. Enable GPS
4. Start GPS Test
5. Go to settings
6. Push “Clear AGPS” button
7. Push “Update AGPS” button
8. Press home button
9. Start GPS based app like Google Maps…

Howto install:

1. Go to help -> install new software
2. Click on “Available software sites”
3. Click on add with name “mylyn” and url “http://download.eclipse.org/mylyn/releases/latest”
4. Click ok to go back to site list
5. Click ok to go back to available software
6. Choose under “Work with” mylyn
7. Choose under “Mylyn integrations” the point “Mylyn Builds Connector: Hudson/Jenkins (Incubation)”
8. Choose under “Mylyn SDKs and Frameworks” the point  ”Mylyn Builds (Incubation)”
9. Click on next
10. Go through install process and restart eclipse
11. Choose from menu “Window” -> “show view”
12. Choose “Mylyn” -> “Builds”

<language>/32-bit_Driver/Debian

the deb packages. First thing to install is cndrvcups-common_2.20-l_i386.deb with dpkg -i <deb file>. The problem is that ubuntu 11.04 doesn’t contain the required gs-esp package.

Workaround is to download and install it with

dpgk -i gs-esp_9.01~dfsg~svn12047-0ubuntu1_all.deb

After that you can install the common canon driver and afterwards the ufr driver:

dpgk -i cndrvcups-common_2.20-1_i386.deb dpgk -i cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.20-1_i386.deb

Now you can open the driver setup application and click on the add button. Choose network printer, enter the ip of your canon printer and click on examine. Select from the list below Canon and click on next. Select “LBP6650″ and click on next. Confirm dialog with use button. Test your configuration with printing a test page.