Logitech Harmony One

I bought a Logitech Harmony One remote for our Home Media Centre/Theatre/Blu-ray/Sky HD mutant setup to replace 5 remotes with one and had a lot troubles getting it to work with our crappy tv which is Philips 42PFL5522D/05. If you own this tele and you just bought Harmony One save your self some time and choose 42PFL5522D and not 42PFL5522D/05 as model of TV when setting the remote up. This will make switching inputs work.

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How to fix Java on Debian Lenny

This post was previously about getting Amazon ec2 API tools working on Debian Lenny when seeing something like this:

user@computer:$ ec2-describe-instances
Unexpected error:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1611)

After number of comments it looked as a generic solution to java related problems so I’ve change the title.

Here is how to fix it Java on Lenny: Continue reading

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