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To make a GET request to an RQM server you need to set four HEADER values Accept: application/xml Content-Type: application/rdf+xml OSLC-Core-Version: 2.0 Authorization: Basic BASICAUTHTOKEN The generate the BASICAUTHTOKEN, perform the following operation [credit] String userpass = username + “:” + password; String basicAuth = “Basic ” + javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(userpass.getBytes()); The endpoint will look something like… Continue reading How to access the RQM (Rational Quality Manager) API with Basic Authorization

I had a very difficult time finding installation examples for the Bosch EL-51253 Power Max, so I want to add this image to the collection for future references: My house was pre-wired with 8 gauge wire to a 40amp breaker. The wires comes out at an electric box, so to run the flexible conduit into the… Continue reading Bosch EL-51253 Power Max 30 Amp Electric Vehicle Charging station wall installation

I’ve seen using Redfin and Zillow to look for houses. It seems that realtors like to lie about the size of the houses they are selling. It’s like someone taking a deceptive pictures to use in an online dating website. This has led to a rather funny item you always see in houses: oval clocks.… Continue reading Oval clocks: realtors treat house images like online dating profile pictures

One of the things that really irks me is when well to-do people say shit like: “Poor people get free healthcare, why should I work. I should just quit my job and go on welfare so I can get free shit too”. It pisses me off because I’ve had experience looking for doctors and dentists… Continue reading Finding doctors and dentists for medi-cal and denti-cal

Our newborn girl has a condition known as Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), or simply known as “acid reflux”. This is how our days play out. 1. We feed her 2. Hold her for 30 minutes to prevent reflux 3. Doesn’t work, she vomits 4. We clean her 5. She’s hungry because she didn’t keep her… Continue reading What it’s like to have a baby with acid reflux

AWS ElasticSearch Service allows you to secure connections to your amazon elasticsearch servers in two ways: Restrict by IP Sign your request with IAM Using the restrict by IP option is easy, but it won’t work in places like Heroku, where you don’t have control of the IP address of your app. So you are… Continue reading How to sign aws elasticsearch service requests with elasticsearch-ruby using IAM

For me, it was a lot of bitterness. I would watch the news and they would have a story about women who had their baby in a bathroom and left it there to die. It made me so, so angry. But it doesn’t even have to be something so extreme. I hated going to the… Continue reading What inferfility feels like

I just found out that I can revert back to gchat, instead of using the new hangout. The new hangout sucks. Here is the comment I left for them in their feedback form.   This new Hangout replacement for Gchat is super bogus. Here is why 1) Why does hangout need to be in a… Continue reading Gchat vs Hangout

Sometimes, for no reason at all, an AWS volume will stop responding. To fix this you can 1) create an image of that volume 2) create a volume from that image 3) attach the new image to the original instance I discovered this today while trying to fix an instance that stopped responding. Wasted a… Continue reading how to recover from a bad aws volume