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How to silence a piezo buzzer in your microwave, alarm clock etc
Almost every time I buy a piece of electronics with some sort of alarm it always includes a super loud and mega annoying buzzer notifying about the end of cycle. Though tuning it off completely is an easy operation (just open the case and cut the wire) making it just…
Fixing Sony Pulse Elite Edition Wireless Headset Blue Light of Death
Sony Pulse Elite Edition Wireless Headset is the finest you can find for PS3 and it totally worth its sticker price between $100 to $150. This is one of only a few options providing Surround sound for PS3, thanks to Sony proprietary protocols used for sound delivery to your ears.
Unfortunately…
Fixing Verizon FiOS DNS Problems
Your superfancy FiOS internet link is getting flaky for no reason every now and then? The reason could be not the fiber-optic cable (which is awesome), but a problem with part of infrastructure called DNS servers. The DNS (Domain Name Resolution) servers are responsible for translating domain names such as…
ActionView::Template::Error (active_admin.css isn’t precompiled)
Just sepnt quite some time fixing infamous “ActionView::Template::Error (active_admin.css isn’t precompiled)” error on prod. Everything worked fine in dev environment but once I put the code on prod it broke. Couple websites proposed several solutions, but none of them worked for me. Finally a combination of difference recipes seemed to…
Apple’s review fraud prevention system is as useless as Amazon’s :(
I already was writing about fraudulent reviews on amazon.com. Just today found the same lame approache to reviews on app store. Developer Jackadam seems investing ton of money into the promotion of a program called “Dark Sky – Weather radar, Hyperlocal Forecasts, and …”. I found a very positive review…
Fraudulent promotion techniques on Amazon are getting smarter
Take a look at this item:
Oracle Policy Automation Modeler Debugger 10.4.3 is not working with Internet Explorer 10
Oracel Policy Modeler Debugger is not working with Internet Explorer 10. You can still use it to author and compile rules, but debugger with windows just hangs.
There is no official fix for this yet, so your only option is to uninstall IE10 if you can. In windows 7 go to…
Enabling HTTPS in JBoss EAP 5, Using Self-Signed Certificate
Surprisingly by default JBoss EAP (at least version 5) comes with HTTPS disabled. Here is how to enable it:
Using Jive Managed Snippets Plugin
Managed Snippets Plugin for Jive is awesome. It allows administrators to define sort of “macros” that can be reused on a Jive portal. The best part is that it allows to workaround the regular limitation for using javascript and HTML tags. Yes, that’s right, you can use Javascript, IFRAMEs and…
How to call Oracle Policy Automation via SOAP/WSDL
As you probably read in my other post, OPA is a great alternative to the Oracle Business Rules (OBR) as all the business logic could be exposed via web services. Unfortunately Oracle didn’t leave us much documentation about how to do that. So if you’re wondering how do you call…
Configuring Oracle Policy Automation Determinations Server runtime pluggability as an alternative to Oracle Business Rules
It looks like not many people know about this, but Oracle actually has two business rule engines. One is called OBR (Oracle Business Rules) and it is bundled with SOA suite. The other one has less meaningful name OPA (Oracle Policy Automation) and at the first glace serves totally different…
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