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imapd certs for Outlook Express

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

From /usr/share/ssl/certs:

tar -cvf certs-working.tar *
rm -f imapd.pem
make imapd.pem
(enter certificate details)
openssl x509 -in imapd.pem -out imapd.crt

import imapd.crt by double-clicking on it in Windows.

J1EE

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

I’ve been using WSAD to write J2EE apps for several years.  Recently I installled Windows XP on my laptop next to Windows 2000.  WSAD is installed on the Windows 2000 side and won’t run because it can’t find the license.  Rather than reinstalling I started to run eclipse (V3M8).  I was working on a web application for my children and wanted to make a simple change.  I copied the WSAD project into eclipse and created a simple ant build.xml with a war task.  Well, what do you know, it worked!  I was able to deploy it to tomcat 5 through the manager app with the greatest of ease.  So now I can write servlets and JSPs with eclipse with no special plug-ins.


I feel like I’m entering the J1EE age.


 


(Note for those who don’t get the joke: the servlet API predates Java 2 and J2EE.)

Organic Babcia’s Pączki (Paczki, Ponchki, Polish Dougnuts)

Saturday, April 10th, 2004

Heat until bubbles form:

1/2 cup milk

remove from heat, add

1/3 cup Rapadura (sugar)
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter

stir until melted, cool to lukewarm.

Sprinkle

2 packets active dry yeast

over

1/2 cup warm water (105-115 degrees F)

in a bowl.  A pinch of sugar may help the yeast grow.  In a mixer bowl, put the milk mixture, the yeast mixture and

4 egg yolks
2 cups of whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 tablespoons rum

Mix for 2 minutes until smooth then add up to

2 cups of whole wheat flour

until dough comes clean off the side of the mixing bowl.  Let rise at 85 degrees F for 1 hour until doubled in size.  Pound/kneed 10 times (until smooth) on a lightly floured surface.  Roll to 1/4 inch thick.  Cut out 3 inch rounds.  Divide the rounds into two sets.  Put

1/2 teaspoon jam (jelly, etc)

in the center of one half of the rounds.  Brush the edges of the other rounds with

egg whites

press the rounds together to seal the jam in with the egg whites.  Cover the panczki and let rise to double the size (45 minutes).

Heat 2 inches of oil to 350 degrees F.  Cook 3-4 panczki at a time.  Turn when risen and turn once more (4 minutes total).

Dust with

powdered Rapadura (sugar)

Eat hot or cold.  They’re good for days.  If kept covered the sugar can glaze nicely.

Notes for next time:

  1. Putting the panczki at the top of the water heater closet worked well,
  2. but cover them with plastic because the top side dried out.
  3. Initial doubling time was about 90 minutes
  4. The second rise time was 2 hours but 1 hour was spent at the bottom (closer to 75  degrees).
  5. The egg white worked well, but the press had to be quite firm to get a good seal.
  6. With the oil at 365 degrees at close to 4 minutes, the panczki came out very dark.

2012 Notes:

We made two batches this year with great success.  This year we tried to reproduce my babcia’s filling method.  It was easier and produced superior results.  Here’s the method:

Pinch off a piece of dough.  Form it into a ball.  Push a hole for the filling with your thumb and work the ball into a little cup with a small hole at the top.  Using a syringe (I cut the top off a cod-liver-oil syringe) fill with jam.  Close the hole behind the jam neither letting jam out nor leaving air in.

The other change was to leave the first rise overnight and to do the second rise in a warming drawer at about 100 degrees F.

Watch the flour level carefully.  Our second batch was too wet and made flat panczki.  They were still good but harder to handle and not round.

Tortillas

Wednesday, April 7th, 2004

I’ve been experimenting with tortillas lately.  Here’s the current recipe:


2 cups whole wheat flour
some butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder


Mix up in a mixer and add


1/2 cup of warm water with
1 tablespoon oil

1 teaspoon of Rapadura mixed in (this bit’s the latest experiment)


I did cut the water in half since the last time.  I left out the sugar and added oil this time with good results.


Divide into 12 balls.  Press dough in a tortilla press.  I find that oiling the plates before pressing helps.  Oil a wooden pizza board and a wooden roller.  Roll out the pressed dough rounds into 10 to 12 inch tortillas.  Cook on an oiled fajita pan.  The best way to do this is to have the tortilla dough balls ready and to get the children to press the dough and flip the tortilla.  This will free you to concentrate on rolling out the dough.  Work the edges with the roller to get a nice round shape.  Cook untill there are a few broen spots on both sides.  Final cooking can be done when the tortillas are made into burritos or quesadillas.


Last time I divided into rougly 2oz balls and got about 16.  I got smaller tortillas about 8″ in diameter.


 


 

Flip

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

right over left

Chick-Fil-A Like Recipe / Onion Rings

Monday, April 5th, 2004




Starting point: http://www.recipegal.com/chicken/Chick-Fil-A-Chicken-Sandwich.htm

Made some modifications and got this:

Peanut oil to fill the deep fryer
1 egg
1 cup organic milk
1
cup whole wheat flour
2-1/2 Tablespoons Rapadura sugar
1/2
teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 Skinless, boneless chicken
breasts, halved

Heat the oil to 375F.

Whisk the egg/milk.

In a blender turn the sugar / salt to powder then add the flour and
pepper.

One bowl for egg mix, one bowl for dry mix.

Cut the chicken up into strips and nuggets. Thin strips cook fast and
maximize the batter to chicken ratio.

Soak the chicken in the egg mix. Coat the chicken with the dry mix and
fry. Thin strips will cook easily in 2 minutes.

When the chicken’s cooked mix some of the egg mix with the dry mix.
Slice an onion to get rings. Coat the rings in the batter and fry. The
resulting onion rings remind Naomi of "The Varsity" in Athens, GA.


BEFW11S4v4 Hangs

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

My BEFW11S4 would hang every 76 to 91 minutes.  The management interface would just stop responding and the wireless side would not get through to the switch.  DHCP is on the other side of the switch and I’ve got a really short lease set up for my LAN.  This made for a rather baffling problem.  Add to that a new intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 which would drop the secure connection every nine minutes and the fun begins.


The solution was to hard reset the BEFW11S4 followed by an immediate firmware flash of 1.5.10.  After reconfiguring the router properly I’ve gone 24 hours at the time of this writing without a hang.


For the intel card, Dell had a new version of the driver which solved a key renegotiation problem.  That sounds like my nine miniute drop and indeed the problem had not reoccured.


So, how did I get to the solution?  Darwin Retuya on the Linksys live chat suggested this course of action.  First he suggested hard reset then RTS and fragmentation then removing firewalls then firmware upgrade.  In each case I told him that the preceding step had failed.  Finally he said, hard reset the BEFW11S4 followed by a firmware reinstall.  I tried it using the tftp client instead of the web client and it worked.


Others at Linksys had been working with me for a week without providing the solution, so my hat’s off to Darwin Retuya.

Double Gingersnaps

Sunday, February 8th, 2004

This recipe has been modified to use less highly processed and organic ingredients.  I get about 100 cookies out of it, but you can make a half batch.


Heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.


In a mixer cream butter and sugar then add eggs and molasses.



  • 1 1/2 cups butter (organic sweet cream)
  • 2 cups Rapadura
  • 2 eggs (organic free roaming brown large grade A)
  • 1/2 cup molasses (unsulphered blackstrap)

I find that putting the eggs in the cup measure and pouring in the molasses helps get all the molasses out of the measure and into the mixer.  Melted butter works very well with the whole wheat flour.



  • 4 cups whole wheat flour (organic)
  • 2 tsps baking soda
  • 2 tsps cinnamon
  • 1 tsp white pepper
  • 4 tsps ground ginger

I measure the flour on the light side with a one cup measuring cup to get a wetter dough for a thinner cookie.


Mix these up in a separate bowl then scoop the mixture into the mixer with the rest of the ingredients.


The dough at this point will be wet and hard to handle.  You can refrigerate it now to get a harder dough.  You’ll get thicker cookies.


If you use the dough right away, the rolling sugar will stick to your hands and make the rolling easier once you get going.


Put some Rapadura in a flat bowl or plate.  For each cookie roll a piece of  dough into a ball and sprinkle with sugar until the whole ball is coated.  Fill up a cookie sheet and



  • bake at 350 degrees for 13 minutes

Take them out sooner for a softer cookie.  13 minutes should give a crispy ginger snap once the cookies have cooled.  They’ll come out a bit soft.  It’s hard to tell by color with these as they’re made with molasses and brown flour.


I leave them on the cookie sheet for about 2 minutes then I transfer them to a cooling rack.  I find that alternating two cookie sheets I can make all 100 cookies in about 2 hours (including mixing).


 

MySql And WSAD 5 in A J2EE 1.3 Project

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

I got MySQL working with WSAD 5 in a WebSphere 5 test environment. 


First I added mysql-connector-java-3.0.9-stable.bin.jar to the ws.ext.dirs section of the Paths section of the server config.  Then I added a JDBC provider to the Data source section.  I used the implementation class name: com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource.  I added the mysql-connector-java-3.0.9-stable.bin.jar to the class path here again out of paranoia.  It didn’t work with the jar just here until I added the ws.ext.dirs entry.  I’ll clean this up later. I had luck with the v4 datasources before, but in this case I wanted to do a WAS5 project and use J2EE 1.3.  An exception is thrown when I try to get a V4 DataSource in this case.  So, I added a V5 DataSource.  The non-obvious thing was to set the helper class name to: com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.GenericDataStoreHelper.  It’s not in the drop down list in my copy of WSAD.  After a bit of searching, I found this: http://publib7b.boulder.ibm.com/wasinfo1/en/info/ee/javadoc/ee/com/ibm/websphere/rsadapter/GenericDataStoreHelper.html


It’s been working pretty well.

Java Code

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Comment on this code:


while (gotPassword == false)
{
  checkConnection(telnetClient);
  line=TelnetUtil.readUntilFtpPrompt(in);
  if (line.toString().toLowerCase().indexOf(”password:”) != -1)
  {
    gotPassword= true;
  }
  System.err.println(host+”: failed to get ‘password:’ prompt”);
  throw new Exception(host+”: Failed to get password prompt”+line);
}