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  • JMeter Could not initialize class org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.MenuFactory

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    Why??? It worked yesterday, why does JMeter not work properly today. Where is my right-click menu? This is the error I was getting at the console after opening jmeter.bat: Uncaught Exception java.lang.VerifyError: class com.google.common.collect.AbstractMapBasedMultimap overrides final method setMap.(Ljava/util/Map;)V. See log file for details. Uncaught Exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.MenuFactory. See log file for…

  • Arista error “Not a recognised media file!”

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    I had been happily using Arista Transcoder to compress videos taken from my camera into something more usable, when one day, up pops this error:  The same happened if I chose a different output format like WebM too. Why? After much head scratching, I found the cause. I had been experimenting with lots of video conversion…

  • SSO with Google Apps and OpenAthens LA

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    Google Apps SAML SSO configuration isn’t the most flexible thing in the world, but it does work. Google requires that you pass a value to it encoded as a SAML NameID which matches the full email address of the user who has logged in. If you are used to working with SSO in an education…

  • Enabling Shibboleth WAYFless linking with ExLibris SFX

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    SFX is an OpenURL link resolver, used in many university library systems. I am no librarian, but my basic understanding is that it takes information about publications (ebooks, journal articles etc) along with information about how your institution should link to said resources (if it subscribes to them), and constructs hyperlinks based on the information.…

  • No internet connection after updating to Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)

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    I encountered this problem today after running an distribution update, upgrading from 12.04 (Precise) to 12.10 (Quantal). NetworkManager appeared to connect ok – I had an been assigned an IP address from the router etc, but still had no internet connectivity. Running the following command fixed the problem: sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf It is a known…

  • Convert Quadtree to TMS or ZXY

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    I had a set of map tiles generated using Microsoft Research’s free and pretty useful MapCruncher tool. The problem is that it outputs the tiles in the “Quadtree” format used by Bing maps (fair enough) so that you can easily create a Bing maps mashup, whereas I wanted to use the resultant tiles with one of the many…