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Battery Not Charging in Net Book (Aspire One)

Here's what I found a a help site that worked:

"Unplug it pop out the battery and hold the power down for a minute, put the battery and ac adapter back in and start it; the motherboard was probably still holding power when the battery died causing a "hiccup"in the system, this should resolve or at least help a little."

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Making Bread

Recipe for Bread Pan with Lid (Pain de Mie Pan)

Specifically for our bread pan 300mm

Flour 375g
Rice Flour 45g
Milk 300cc (1 & 1/3 cup)
Sugar 22.5g ~6 tsp
Butter 22.5g or 1.5 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Dry Yeast 1 tsp

Sift flour together twice

I substituted water for milk and olive oil for the butter, the mixture was way too wet, let's try just 1 cup and 1 tbsp of water next time.

Put in bread machine and let it go until it gets punched down for the second rise. Going to try to have it kneaded an extra five minutes.

Original recipe says cover with wet towel for 15 minutes but I just let it stay in the bread machine instead, as stated above.

Spray pan with oil, and place dough in pan.

I actually pre-heated oven for a couple of minutes and then let it rise with the cover almost closed until bread almost reached top this takes approximately 45 minutes.

I turned on oven and when it reached 375F, I started the timer for 35 minutes.

So, 375F for 35 minutes and you now have bread.

Notes: The original recipe has you separate the bread into two halves and place these in the bread pan to keep it from getting too much dome shape. I actually broke it into four pieces, rolled them into ball/logs with ends pointing to narrow sides and it worked perfectly.

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Struts2Action with Tomcat and Eclipse

Tomcat

You will need to add the following XML entry in order to use Tomcat Manager
/conf/tomcat-users.xml
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager"/>

You can use the XAMPP MySQL engine by making the following changes.
/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/manning" />
<property name="username" value="root" />
<property name="password" value="root" />
</bean>

Point to a JDK of your choice and use the JAVA_OPTS variable to allow debugging in Eclipse.
/bin/startup.bat
SET JAVA_HOME=C:\java\jdk1.6.0_17
SET JAVA_OPTS=-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n

Eclipse

Add jar files for build from the following:

  • C:\tomcat\lib
  • C:\tomcat\webapps\Struts2InAction\WEB-INF\lib
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Picasa Database Location

Looking for a network drive solution because Picasa keeps its thumbnail database and meta data local. Does not work great with a network drive.

Here is the location of the database:
In Windows /Users/%USERNAME%/AppData/Local/Google/Picasa2/db3/

Backing up the photos within Picasa will preserver the meta data. A better solution needs to be found, but none exists at this point.

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How to disable dumprep.exe

When a program crashes in windows this program normally is what causes things to hang and it keeps opening multiple copies of itself if you attempt multiple close attemps.

How to disable dumprep.exe:

1. Right click on "My Computer," choose "Properties" from that menu.
2. Click on "Advanced tab,"
3. Click the "Error Reporting" button.
4. Check the "Disable error reporting" box. You may choose to uncheck the the box below it, "But notify me when an error occurs," if desired.