Author Archives: Tor Henning Ueland

Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error 0×80300001

After installing drivers during a Windows-installation you might get this error message when you select a drive to install it on “windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error 0×80300001″ This is another (strange) way for Windows to … Continue reading

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Yum on Red Hat 5 hangs when using proxy

I had a machine that started hanging when running yum update on it. And the only way to actually stop yum then was to kill the process from another shell, pretty strange. I noticed that it was trying to look … Continue reading

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Wrong charset for cron

I got a issue on a export job i had that was running daily on which the charset of the data exported wer wrong, and this did not happen when i ran the job manually. I noticed that Cron used … Continue reading

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Getting Windows 2008 server uptime via the command line

A simple one liner to get hold of Windows 2008 server uptime: systeminfo | find "System Boot Time"

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The effects of old NIC drivers on Data Protector

During the Data Protector migration we noticed that the performance on the new Data Protector Cell Manager was a lot lower than the performance on the old solution. Speeds of around 100Mbit was the best we ever could get from … Continue reading

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Dataprotector: System error: HOST_NOT_FOUND

I have been working a bit with migrating a Data Protector cell manager, when moving a client i recieved the following error: [Critical] From: BDA-NET@ " [/boot]" Time: 02.09.2011 09:08:03 Cannot connect to Media Agent on system , port 49708 … Continue reading

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GWT: “For security purposes, this type will not be serialized.”

The full error message you can get is: “Foo was not included in the set of types which can be serialized by this SerializationPolicy or its Class object could not be loaded. For security purposes, this type will not be … Continue reading

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Cant download large apps from Android Market

If you are running a rooted Android phone and have problems with downloading large apps from the Android market, one fix can be to move the market download folder over to the SD-card, install a terminal emulator and perform the … Continue reading

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Java: Converting long to double

While Integers has to be parsed from a String, doubles can simply be casted: String bar = "9.99"; Double foo = (double)bar;

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EXT GWT: Adding onClick to Labels

I had a issue where i needed to add a click handler for labels in EXT GWT, the solution i came up with was as follows theLabel.addListener(Events.OnClick, new Listener() { @Override public void handleEvent(BaseEvent be) { // TODO Auto-generated method … Continue reading

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