TL;DR -- If you Ikea stiffed you some 101350 fluted dowels, you can buy 5/16" dowels from Home Depot, 50 for under $4.

Depending on the precise usage, however, you may have to cut them down.

One of the funniest things about Ikea is that they're scamming all sorts of bougie yuppies to save Ikea the cost of actually assembling furniture. Don't get me wrong: They're maestros at making it so most anyone who's walked past someone with a handy gene can, with enough desire, get from flatpack to functional in an hour. Still, if you're Ikea, you've got all sorts of schmoes who clock $80+ an hour at their place of employment doing $15 an hour work for you, for free. That's an amazing ability to employ the most widely distributed micro-gig workforce, allowing you to have tons more in your warehouses, save crudloads on shipping, etc etc.

But, you know what, I really enjoy putting them together. There's something about assembling the furniture that's very Lego-like, which might not be too surprising, as the companies' headquarters are a long but doable drive away from each other. Must be in the water.

Setting out space, putting together a minimalist's toolset, and solving a beginner's level brainteaser seems a small price to pay for furniture that... isn't embarrassing. Probably won't get listed by name in your will, but functionally excellent. I've put together a wide swath of Ikea choices over the years, from a kitchen table for six, with a leaf that lets it expand to eight that was so easy to assemble that it should have the Ikea label taken off, to a chest of drawers (and its slimmer sidekick, apparently no longer available) whose drawers really do slide open and closed with a special grace on those Ikea rails, to a loft/desk/closet unit with ladder for a kid that, um, was more complex to assemble.

Anyhow, as one does, I recently got a Tarva queen-sized bedframe, which comes with slats in place of box springs for $149. I've got an extra mattress and space for a bed, so... why not?

Opening it up, I was already impressed. What seemed like a great deal also seemed like $40 of plywood sitting on my bedroom floor. I mean, there's some metal for support rails and the fancy slats, but Ikea has to maintain a decent profit margin. Like it's literally just a bunch of 1"x4"s and 1.5"x1.5"s with nicely predrilled holes.

Not patient enough to stain the pine, which is likely a mistake, I did the usual.

1. Open box.
2. Toss aside cardboard packing spacers.
3. Organize pieces by material.
4. Open plastic bags of small things.
5. Separate small things into matching groups.
6. Scan the page in the instructions depicting the small pieces with the faintest attention. (This will be important later.)
7. Start following instructions.

Problem: I got to step 7. of the Tarva instructions and noticed I didn't have enough dowels. Like not nearly enough. I didn't notice until I had one side assembled and screwed down, but if I only used one dowel for every two indicated on the second side, I'd make it. So that's what I did, and tightened everything up.

Well, until I got to step 9, where I needed four more. So I gave up, feeling guilty I'd skimped on the headboard anyway, and took that last half of the headboard that only had half the dowels intended back apart.

Options:

1. Call Ikea and hope they'd mail me some dowels before, well, before too long.
2. Wait until I'm back near an Ikea, the closest being about 3 1/2 hours' drive away.
3. Find another dowel source.

So after taking one of the dowels with me to Home Depot, it turns out the 5/16" dowels they carry are right close, and almost exactly the right diameter. Fifty count for under $3.50!! That's got to less trouble than the cost of my time bugging Ikea for freebees.

Took them home, opened them up, and started in. Now they're a little longer than the Ikea part number 101350 dowels, but I'd noticed putting it together that longer might've be better anyhow, because leaving the dowels more than half-way out had let me catch just the end of each, making pushing the side board down and together easier. Or so I thought.

I put them in each missing hole on the middle, inner board and pushed the headboard slats in. No problem! Worked fine! Makes some sense. If you need a couple different sizes of dowel, but one length would be within tolerance and make do for each of those usages, of course Ikea just gives you a ton of the universal fit dowel. Saves them money and makes it easier for you now that you don't have to keep them organized by size. The Home Depot dowels are just over a quarter-inch longer. They work fine on the inside of the slats. That means they likely should work as-is all over!

Oops. That is what we call in the Ikea trade "an insurmountable gap".

So here's the deal: The holes on the inside can take longer dowels, but the holes on the outside can't. The drilled holes aren't deep enough. Two options.

• Remove all the short dowels from the inside of the slats and replace with longer ones, then use those short ones on the outside.

Downside: I'd still come up three dowels short. For this to really work, you'd need to take the first half of backboard slats back apart.

For some reason I really hate taking things apart that have been put together "right" already.

... orrrrrr ...

• Cut down some of the longer dowels.

You can guess what I did. First I put aside four Ikea dowels for the step 9 (having discovered that some usages require the regulation-length Ikea dowels, I didn't want to risk it on unknown step 9), I pulled out all the short dowels on the inside of the headboard with my teeth, just like you should when the Home Depot dowels say "Warning: Carcinogen" (hopefully Ikea dowels aren't made of the same stuff?), and went outside to hacksaw three Home Depot dowels down to Ikea 101350 dowel height.

Long story only slightly shorter: It worked! I cut the dowels down to match the stock 101350 length and poof! Didn't even have to whittle down the edges to fit; they went right in. After a bit of lining things up, the pieces went together and tightened up without a fight.

So, again, a trip to Home Depot, $3.50, and only another hour of my time and look! I didn't even have to call Ikea and wait for them to send me the missing dowels! What a bargain. And, once I got done with Tarva step 7 fully doweled, I even went ahead and finished up steps 9, 10, and 12 [sic] before writing this and going to sleep!

Good thing I got those dowels at Home Depot and saved so much time. I'm obviously in a real hurry.

Labels: ikea, Other Stuff, problem solved

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 5.0

"5.0" being the number designating the speed. Change that number to whatever you like. I've got my Magic Mouse set to 150 or so.

This does not change the acceleration, just the scaling. Altering the setting via the preferences pane overrides the Terminal command.

Log out and back in to activate.

Labels: os x, problem solved

// Call createGrid from Ext.onReady() to render the simple grid
// to a div with id of 'divUiHook2'.
function createGrid()   {
        
        //==============================================
        // code from Listing 7.1
        //==============================================
        var arrayData = [
                ['Jay Garcia',    'MD'],
                ['Aaron Baker',   'VA'],
                ['Susan Smith',   'DC'],
                ['Mary Stein',    'DE'],
                ['Bryan Shanley', 'NJ'],
                ['Nyri Selgado',  'CA']
        ];


        var nameRecord = Ext.data.Record.create([
                { name:'name',mapping:0},
                { name:'state',mapping:1}
        ]);

        var memoryProxy = new Ext.data.MemoryProxy(arrayData);
        var arrayReader = new Ext.data.ArrayReader({ id:0 },nameRecord);

        var store = new Ext.data.Store({
                reader:arrayReader,
                proxy:memoryProxy
        });

        store.load();                   // this was missing -mfn
        console.log(store.getCount());  // this is what clued me in -mfn


        //==============================================
        // code from Building_our_simple_gridpanel.html
        //==============================================
        var cm = new Ext.grid.ColumnModel([                          // 1
                {
                        header    : 'Full Name',
                        sortable  : true,
                        
                        // changed this from fullName
                        dataIndex : 'name'         // 2
                },
                {
                        header    : 'State',
                        dataIndex : 'state'
                }
        ]);

        var gridView = new Ext.grid.GridView();                     // 3
        var selModel = new Ext.grid.RowSelectionModel({             // 4
                singleSelect : true
        });

        var dummyGrid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({                         // 5
                renderTo   : 'divUiHook2',      // changed from getBody.
                //autoHeight : true,            // replace with constant
                height     : 200,               // constant height
                width      : 250,
                store      : store,                                    // 6
                view       : gridView,                                 // 7
                colModel   : cm,                                       // 8
                selModel   : selModel,

                title      : 'Our first grid'
        });
}       // eo fn createGrid 

Labels: code, ExtJS, obo, problem solved

Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

Labels: problem solved, windows

The behavior of the backup feature is specified in the Autosave and Backup pane of the Utilities>Global Options dialog box; see the section called “The Saving and Backup Pane”.`

The default behavior is to back up the original contents to the buffer's file name suffixed with a tilde (“~”). For example, a file named paper.tex is backed up to paper.tex~.
...
* If the Backup directory setting is non-empty, backups are saved in that location (with the full path to the original file under it). Otherwise, they are saved in the same directory as the original file. The latter is the default behavior.

Labels: jedit, problem solved

Here’s how you read the input Stream:

public void DoWork(Stream input)

{

    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(input);

    string s = sr.ReadToEnd();

    sr.Dispose();

    NameValueCollection qs = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(s);

    string firstName = qs["firstName"];

    string lastName = qs["lastName"];

    // Do work here

}

Labels: ExtJS, problem solved

Sorry, that was a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between User And Chair)

All I needed to do was turn on "auto commit" in SQL Developer.
Tools -> Preferences
Click next to Database,
Select Worksheet Parameters
Click checkbox to mark "Autocommit in SQL Worksheet"
Close SQL Developer and re-launch.

Problem solved.

Labels: oracle, problem solved, SQL Server

Labels: noteToSelf, problem solved, vim

var x = 10;
var o = { x: 15 };
function f(message)
{
    alert(message);
    alert(this.x);
}

f("invoking f");
f.call(o, "invoking f via call");

    initComponent:function() {
        // call parent initComponent    
        Ext.ux.IconCombo.superclass.initComponent.call(this);
    } // end of function initComponent

Labels: ExtJS, javascript, problem solved

Labels: problem solved, regexp

The Greylisting method is very simple. It only looks at three pieces of information (which we will refer to as a "triplet" from now on) about any particular mail delivery attempt:

1. The IP address of the host attempting the delivery
2. The envelope sender address
3. The envelope recipient address

From this, we now have a unique triplet for identifying a mail "relationship". With this data, we simply follow a basic rule, which is:

If we have never seen this triplet before, then refuse this delivery and any others that may come within a certain period of time with a temporary failure.

Labels: email, gmail fail, problem solved

Labels: problem solved, safari

<asp:Button runat="server" ID="cmdSavePrimaryClientEdits" Text="Save" 
  onclick="cmdSavePrimaryClientEdits_Click"
  OnClientClick="checkCboMasks();"
  Enabled="false" />

Another possibility: if the button is disabeld when the page is rendered, then the OnClientClick event is NOT written to HTML. Is your button disabled when the page is rendered? – AASoft Sep 17 '09 at 22:35

Labels: asp.net, jquery, problem solved

   1 var gintStart = 0;
   2 var gintEnd = 0;
   3 var gstrLastVal = "";
   4 
   5 
   6 function findMatch() {
   7         frm1 = document.forms[0];
   8         intMatch = -1;
   9         txtLoc = frm1.elements['txtLoc'];
  10         lstLoc = frm1.elements['<%=lstLocs.ClientID%>'];
  11 
  12         var strCurText = txtLoc.value;
  13         if (strCurText.length <= gstrLastVal.length) {
  14                 // ignore all this; allow deletes gracefully
  15         } else {
  16                 //if ( gstrLastVal.length >= 2 
  17                 //&& (0 != txtLoc.value.indexOf(gstrLastVal)) ) {       
  18                 // gets rid of any hanging on autofilled text
  19                 
  20                 
  21                 if (0 != txtLoc.value.toUpperCase().indexOf(gstrLastVal.toUpperCase())) {
  22                         // txtLoc.value.slice(0, gstrLastVal.length - 1);
  23                         // then again let them do what they want.  Don't try to overcomplete
  24                         
  25                 } else {
  26                         if (txtLoc.value.length > 0) {
  27                                 // go backwards to grab the first match
  28                                 for (var i = lstLoc.options.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
  29 
  30                                         var strOptTxt = lstLoc.options[i].text.toUpperCase();
  31                                 
  32                                         if (0 == strOptTxt.indexOf(txtLoc.value.toUpperCase())) {
  33                                                 intMatch = i;
  34                                         }
  35                                 }
  36 
  37                                 if (-1 != intMatch) {
  38                                         lstLoc.options[intMatch].selected = true;
  39 
  40                                         txtLoc.value = lstLoc.options[intMatch].text;
  41                                         gintStart = strCurText.length;
  42                                         gintEnd = txtLoc.value.length;
  43 // (kinda ruining the whitespace to reduce width for blog)
  44 //createSelection(txtLoc,strCurText.length,txtLoc.value.length); 
  45 // it looks like this tries to set the selection while focus is 
  46 // still going to another control, blowing up the selection.
  47 // thus the delay tactics.
  48 // unsuccessful delay tactics commented, below.
  49 //backdoorSelection();
  50 //setTimeout("createSelection(txtLoc,strCurText.length,txtLoc.value.length)",100);
  51 //setTimeout("createSelection(txtLoc,4,9)",100);
  52                                         setTimeout("backdoorSelection()", 30);
  53                                 } else {
  54                                         // no match.  Deselect anything selected
  55                                         lstLoc.selectedIndex = -1;
  56                                 }
  57                         }
  58                 }
  59         }
  60         gstrLastVal = strCurText;
  61 }
  62 
  63 function backdoorSelection() {
  64         createSelection(document.forms[0].elements['txtLoc'], gintStart, gintEnd);
  65 }
  66 
  67 function createSelection(field, start, end) {
  68         if (field.createTextRange) {
  69                 var selRange = field.createTextRange();
  70                 selRange.collapse(true);
  71                 selRange.moveStart('character', start);
  72                 selRange.moveEnd('character', end);
  73                 selRange.select();
  74         } else if (field.setSelectionRange) {
  75                 field.setSelectionRange(start, end);
  76         } else if (field.selectionStart) {
  77                 field.selectionStart = start;
  78                 field.selectionEnd = end;
  79         }
  80         field.focus();
  81 }

Labels: asp.net, code, problem solved

1 Open phpMyadmin.
2 Select a database to work with.
3 Open the SQL tab.
4 Select all of the SQL statements between the DELIMITER statements in your stored procedure script. Do not include the DELIMITER statements!

Here’s what my example script should look like:

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS spFoo $$

CREATE PROCEDURE spFoo ()

BEGIN

	SELECT 'Foo' FROM DUAL;

END $$

5 In the delimiter field, just below the SQL editor’s text area, enter $$ as your delimiter.

Labels: phpMyAdmin, problem solved, SQL

> Yep, I think the stunnel package I'd mentioned a while back
> is going to be the way to go while developing.

Yeah, wow, that was easy. Forgive me for the bytes, but I figured I'd log
directions here in case someone Googles this thread up. I should add that
I'm using a Mac.

Download stunnel with GUI overlay from here:
http://www-act.ucsd.edu/downloads/SSLEnabler.dmg

Drag the SSL Enabler to Applications and start it up. Authenticate. Have
SSL Enabler install stunnel. It crashed on me then. No big deal.

Restart if it crashed, click Authenticate, and set up a Local Port for POP3
(say 1109), type "pop.gmail.com" (if you're using a Gmail account) as the
Remote Server IP, then 995 as the Remote Port, as 995 is the standard POP3
port for SSL connections.

Here's a catch -- and I've written utilities this sloppy before, I'm afraid
-- you have to have focus leave the Remote Port blank to make sure it
registers your change. Otherwise it sometimes records the default 9999
value. So change focus back to the Local Port or Remote Server IP entry
before clicking save.

Open a term window. Enter the following:

ps ax | egrep stun | egrep -v egrep

Hit return. You should see your stunnel there. For instance:

10526 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -c -d 1109 -r
pop.gmail.com:995

Now you can, for kicks, test out that things are working by telnetting into
Gmail's pop server. Ensure you've enabled POP in your test gmail account.
Note that this is different from enabling IMAP. If you enabled IMAP in the
past, make sure you go back in and do the same for POP. (Yes, personal
experience here. Stoopid.)

So things starting with + came from Google, and stuff before those + lines
are the stuff you'll type.

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 1109
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Gpop ready for requests from [your IP and other info]
user yourUserNameWith@gmail.com
+OK send PASS
pass yourPassword
+OK Welcome.
list
+OK 159 messages (1621817 bytes)
1 2935
2 2764
3 2456
....
retr 2
+OK message follows
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.147.34.3; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:22:40 -0800 (PST)
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:22:40 -0800
....
rset
+OK
quit
+OK Farewell.

Make sure you use "rset" to reset the POP server's state if you're testing.
You'll want the emails to stay "current" so that they show up on your next
LIST. If you don't, they've been permanently POPped, and the server won't
show them to you again without fiddling with Gmail's Mail Settings. (This,
of course, is a large part of why IMAP rocks. POP really is just the Post
Office shoving new stuff you haven't received into your mailbox and washing
their hands of the whole mess.)

In a Real Basic app, you'd start things off with code like this, perhaps in
your main window's Open() subroutine:
Socket1.Port = 1109
Socket1.Address = "127.0.0.1" ' with stunnel

Socket1.username = "yourUserNameWith@gmail.com"
Socket1.password = "yourPassword"

Socket1.Connect

To reset the server while you test and then disconnect, drop this into the
window's Close() sub:
Socket1.RollbackServer ' equivalent of RSET in telnet
Socket1.DisconnectFromServer ' QUIT

As long as you fire up SSL Enabler each time you start up your Mac and enter
in the stunnel, you can code away with the Personal POP3Socket against POP3
servers that require SSL, without the 5 minute warning some Zymail folk were
apparently slogging through as they tested builds without Professional.
Then write the great American novel and change over to POP3SecureSocket
years later once you've slain the whale. I think all you'd hack at that
point would be your Socket.Address from 127.0.0.1 to, in Gmail's case,
pop.gmail.com, the Port from 1109 (or whatever you stunneled) to 995, and
then you'd add these two lines in your window's Open():

Socket1.ConnectionType = POP3SecureSocket.SSLv23
Socket1.Secure = true

There's $200 "saved". ;^) (More accurately, there's $100 /spent/ on the
Personal Edition. Fun nighttime project.)

Thanks for your patience.

Labels: problem solved, realbasic

What I did to solve this problem was to add a new source

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"

After that a normal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

After requesting and downloading a java install on a terminal, I got the following, and ONLY the following:

Package configuration...

┌────────────────────┤ Configuring sun-java6-jre ├─────────────────────┐
│ │...
│
│


There is no more to the window, no place to type a command, no way to read the whole agreement, nor to select Y/N or OK, or anything.

What do I do?

...

emeraldgirl08
August 8th, 2009, 01:53 AM
Have you tried pressing the TAB button?

gregapan
August 8th, 2009, 02:45 AM
emeraldgirl, thanks

I'm just wondering how users are supposed to know that TAB does magical things in ubuntu.

such things are not usually left to the user's guessing skills

>Can I run both side by side?

Yes, you can and you can tell the system which one to use by default (for the Java software).

To get a list of the installed JDK

$ sudo update-java-alternatives -l

To set a new as default one (at the system level)

$ sudo update-java-alternatives -s

Labels: problem solved

This should do it:

:set tw=99999
gggqG
tw is set to some value at least as large as the number of characters in the longest paragraph. gg moves the cursor to the first line; gq is the command to reformat; G moves the cursor to the last line, telling gq to reformat from the current cursor location to the last line.

Labels: problem solved

I am trying to setup the this module Authorize.net (SIM) payment method... but I keep getting this error when I try to complete a transaction:

'The following errors have occurred.
(99) This transaction cannot be accepted.'
...
Where exactly do I place my MD5 hash or what may be creating this error?

Thanks...

The has[h] is an MD5 of your API login ID and a few other fields in the transaction. Have you entered the correct login ID?

Labels: problem solved

   1 <html>
   2 
   3 <head>
   4         <title>Simplest (give or take) Colorbox</title>
   5 
   6         <link media="screen" rel="stylesheet" href="./includes/colorbox.css" />
   7         <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
   8         <!-- from http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/ -->
   9         <script src="./includes/jquery.colorbox.js"></script>
  10         <script>
  11                 // This is for colorbox support
  12                 function disFeedback(str)   {
  13                         elmOut = document.getElementById("feedback");
  14                         var d = new Date();
  15                         <?php
  16                                 if ($bDebug)   {
  17                                         echo "elmOut.innerHTML " .
  18                                          "= elmOut.innerHTML + \"<br><br>\\n\" + " .
  19                                          "d.getTime() + \"<br>\n\" + str;\n";
  20                                 }    else {
  21                                         echo "elmOut.innerHTML = str;\n";
  22                                 }
  23                         ?>
  24                         $.colorbox({width:"50%", inline:true, href:"#feedback"});
  25         //              alert('here');
  26                 }
  27         </script>
  28 </head>
  29 
  30 
  31 <body>
  32         This is some text.<br>
  33         <!-- below DIV is for colorbox info -->
  34         <div style='display:none'>
  35                 <div id='feedback' style='padding:10px; background:#fff;'></div>
  36         </div>
  37 
  38         <a href="#" onClick="disFeedback('<b>test feedback</b>');return false;">test</a>
  39 </body>
  40 
  41 </html>
  42 

Labels: code, css, dhtml, problem solved