adamrudolph.com » Misc http://adamrudolph.com Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:36:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 How to reduce QTP object repository file size http://adamrudolph.com/2010/09/23/how-to-reduce-qtp-object-repository-file-size/ http://adamrudolph.com/2010/09/23/how-to-reduce-qtp-object-repository-file-size/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:36:33 +0000 adam http://adamrudolph.com/?p=106 Lately at work we’ve had a lot of issues Object Repository file sizes getting huge and the files getting corrupt. Today I started removing old browsers and checking the file size after each Save. The size kept shrinking as I expected. After I removed all the outdated browsers and saved, I noticed the file size had jump back up again to almost the original file size. How is this possible? I don’t know. After searching the interwebs for solutions I found the solution.

  1. Open Object Repository file in OR Manager
  2. Export to XML
  3. Create new OR file
  4. Import from XML
  5. Replace original file
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Life without Brett Favre isn’t that scary, really….

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I first stopped here during a school field trip in 8th grade. During the first 2 years of college at Winona State I made frequent trips down Broadway to Bloedow’s. They definitely helped out with the “freshman 15″. Nowadays I only make it back to Winona maybe once a year and one of my first stops is always for donuts.

No website. No wi-fi. No expensive coffee. Just great bakery products…especially my fav, the raised glazed donuts.

Outside Bloedow\'s Bakery in Winona, MN

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This docu discusses the history of the air guitar championship in Finland and how the US finally got involved.  A good portion of the movie shows people jamming out in competition and it gets out of hand quickly.  Holy crap.  It was almost too much to handle towards the beginning so be careful.

Here is the movie site: http://www.airguitarnation.com/

Add it to your netflix queue today!

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the public has spoken
the historic ball
brand it wins with 74%
your votes have made history
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My first trial was with the new HLC Mogul. It’s a cool phone. Only of the only Sprint phones with built-in WiFi. it’s got a 2.0 MP camera, Windows Mobile 6, mini-SD card, full QWERTY keyboard, etc. But it’s 300$, and you basically need the 15$/month sprint Vision pack to use all features. If you’re a super geek who needs access to Outlook, mobile office apps like excel, word, full keyboard…get this phone. It’s nice. But i’m not looking for all that shit right now, so I took it back. Oh, I had some issues with it. It wouldn’t save some of my preferences for notifications so I was bombarded with New Email notifications every 10 minutes. And surfing the web was kinda painful compared to the iPhone. It doesn’t come with flash installed, and I couldn’t figure out how to install flash in under 10 minutes on my laptop, so I gave up.

[tags]Sprint Mogul, HLC, iPhone[/tags]

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The connection is okay, a little over 1MB.  Much less than the 2.5 I was getting with Charter, but at least I won’t have a week of no internet again.  Even our TV signal is bad now, looks worse than bunny ears on the major network channels.  Pathetic.

So long Charter, it’s been fun.  We can stay in touch via ilovecharterNOT.com.  I plan on getting this up for people to bitch about charter, god knows there are a million other unhappy customers out there.

[tags]charter, charter communications, qwest, dsl[/tags]

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  1. Change the water every 2-3 months depending on use.
  2. Make sure you check and maintain chemical levels.
  3. DON’T BE A CHEAP/DUMB ASS AND ONLY USE 1/2 GALLON OF RV ANTI-FREEZE THINKING THAT IS ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOUR WIMPY PLASTIC PIPES FROM FREEZING IN A STATE WHERE YOU CAN GET FROSTBITE JUST FROM BEING OUTSIDE FOR A FEW MINUTES DURING ONE OF THE “COLD” MONTHS!

Phew….glad I got that out.  Okay, so full disclosure here.  I’m the dumbass who only used 1/2 gallon of anti-freeze.  And I’m the cheap ass who has spent the last 3.5 months trying to fix the cracked pipe myself instead of shelling out some big bucks.   Here is what I had to deal with:

http://picasaweb.google.com/adam.rudolph/HotTub

There are 2 close-ups of the area I had to fix.  It’s located towards the middle of the tub’s base.  I could barely reach one arm back there to work on everything.  Man, what a project.  But after 22$ of material, maybe 10-15 hours of labor, countless weird looks from my neighbors as they watched my butt crack hang out of the hot tub….it’s done!

People ask me: Was it worth all the work? I just smile and nod.

[tags]spa, hot tub, coleman[/tags]

]]> http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/27/tips-for-first-time-spa-owners/feed/ 0 I get knocked down, but I GOT up again http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/06/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-got-up-again/ http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/06/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-got-up-again/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:53:49 +0000 adam http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/06/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-got-up-again/ Pong update:

 Lost to Li in my first match as the ladder champ today; very disappointing.  I HAD him but let it slip away.

No worries though, he lost to Joel D who I beat.  So I’m back on top.  :)

[tags]ping pong[/tags]

]]> http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/06/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-got-up-again/feed/ 0 At the top of the ping pong ladder http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/05/at-the-top-of-the-ping-pong-ladder/ http://adamrudolph.com/2007/06/05/at-the-top-of-the-ping-pong-ladder/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:28:54 +0000 adam http://adamrudolph.com/?p=14 At work we have a ping pong ladder.  The good, the bad and the ugliest pong players battle it out for the top spot on the ladder.  For months I’ve been working my way up only to lose to the champ.  That all changed yesterday.  I challenged the champ and beat him.  It took 3 games but I was just messing around really.  Now I’m just enjoying my time on the top of the ladder knowing it’s not going to last long. 

[tags]ping pong[/tags]

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