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Monthly Archives October 2007

Gnnhh.

I get that you want to protect your business from burglars. I get that. I really do.
But if you allow your alarm to wail unattended for OVER AN HOUR when people are trying to sleep, then you should be shot.

Posted 29 October 2007 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Insomnia!

Bane of restfulness!
Slayer of sleepytime!
Truly, thou art a cruel and capricious mistress.

Posted 23 October 2007 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Runtime.exec() slight weirdness

Change working directory of java code to location of batch file before code is launched, call rt.exec(”batchfile.bat”), batch file runs.
Leave working directory alone, call

File dir = new File(”C:\\path\\to\\batch\\file”);
rt.exec(”batchfile.bat”, null, dir);

Batch file does not run, giving a file not found error.
Change second line to rt.exec(”cmd /c batchfile.bat”, null, dir); - batch file runs.
I’m not sure why [...]

Posted 04 October 2007 † Simes § Java ‡ Comments (0) °