Using Conary to install ghostscript

So I was fighting trying to get ghostscript to install on my rpath media wiki appliance. Now I know nothing about Conary so this was a bit over my head but I eventually got it. But don’t trust any of this you have been warned. What I needed to do was to update my /etc/conaryrc [...]

I’ve been busy, recent projects

I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been busy I really like to document what I’m working on though and frequently use this blog as a personal KB. Anways, I won’t go in huge detail but these are a few things I’ve been messing with. Barcode detection from scan\faxed images using the amazing zxing http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ [...]

How to mirror output to control two computers (or more) with a single mouse and keyboard

I was looking into this for testing software upgrades (mainly qlikview documents) but it seems that the gaming ‘scene’ has brought a lot of really useful tools for this. What finally worked out the best for me was some software called multibox. http://code.google.com/p/multibox/ I at first couldn’t figure out how to use it, ah the [...]

sun.net.www.protocol.http.NTLMAuthentication.setHeaders Can’t get a java program to talk through a squid proxy

Uncaught error fetching image: java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.net.www.protocol.http.NTLMAuthentication.setHeaders(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.doTunneling(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getDecoder(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(Unknown Source) java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(Unknown Source) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) [...]

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