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Here's today's annoyance: Adding a new network printer to Windows 7 failed to update the Windows registry properly. At work the other day I needed to add a new network printer. Pretty easy huh? After browsing for the network device, installing the correct driver and running of a test page I thought I was done. Apparently I was mistaken. Here's what happened after the printer was added: Applications such as Adobe Reader X fail to "see" the added printer. Applications such as Microsoft Word 2010 or Excel 2010 can "see" the printer (kinda) but will not let you select it. Could not set and/or change the default printer, fails with " Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000709). Double check the printer name and make sure that printer is connected to the network. ". Thinking there was something wrong with the network, printer driver and/or ports I (attempted to) uninstall/re-install the printer several times - ending up with severa...

Today's little hiccup: I'm extracting email attachments to a directory and I need to read the list of files that have been extracted. Here's where the Foundation FileUtils Find operation comes in. The documentation  states: " ... Regular Expression A string value that represents the regular expression used to match the file and directory names. The default is * which matches any file and directory name. (See Regular expressions syntax.) ... " Using the default value of " * " produces this result: ALC-FUT-001-007: Syntax error in the regular expression *. at com.adobe.livecycle.fileutils.FileUtilsService.list(FileUtilsService.java:809) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.adobe.id...

For those of you who wished for a 'user-friendly' graphical interface for a HyperSQL database, your wait is over! OpenOffice.org Base is the preferred graphical environment for a HyperSQL database as OOo actually utilises HyperSQL as its embedded database engine. Here's what you'll need: A HyperSQL database server. You can download HyperSQL from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb/files/ OpenOffice.org Base. You can download the full OpenOffice.org suite from here: http://download.openoffice.org/   And here's how to get it up and running: 1. Extract the downloaded HyperSQL bundle to a location on your local machine, e.g. C:\hsqldb-1.8.0.10 [optional]: Add the following entries to your system environment variables: name: HSQLDB_HOME value: <path to your HyperSQL installation, e.g. C:\hsqldb-1.8.0.10> name: PATH value: ;%HSQLDB_HOME%\lib; Note: This value should be added to your existing PATH value! 2. Install OpenOffice.org. 3. Confi...

HyperSQL is a terrific lightweight Java database solution that can be embedded to applications. This post outlines a couple of simple scripts for safely starting / stopping a HyperSQL database server instance (hosting one or more individual databases). It also avoids the need to have the main HyperSQL jar file sitting alongside your database files. In the examples below, I'm configuring a local database instance called ' resdb '. You’ll need to configure three files: a start-up script called: start_hsqldb_server.bat a connection properties file called sqltool.rc a shutdown script called stop_hsqldb_server.bat The start-up script looks like this: #REM start_hsqldb_server.bat @echo off set HSQLDB_LIB= <path to hsqldb library> set DB_FILE=<path to your database .script file [minus the .script part]> set DB_ALIAS=<database alias name> start "HSQLDB Server" java -cp "%HSQLDB_LIB%" org.hsqldb.Server -database.0 file:"%DB_F...