Dumping to stdout:
tcpdump -A -s 0 -w - \
"dst $DST and port $PORT > dump.dat"

Reading from the dump file using tcpdump -s0 -A -r - < dump.dat results in output like this

15:01:32.748754 IP 10.246.126.172.19992 > nw-ws-035.asplogon.com.http: Flags [.], seq 1831:3291, ack 9496, win 253, length 1460
.@.u...
.~.>F(.N..P.({..&..P.......<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><SOAP-ENV:Header><wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><wsse:UsernameToken SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand="1"><wsse:Username><!-- more xml -->

15:01:32.751756 IP 10.246.126.172.19992 > nw-ws-035.asplogon.com.http: Flags [P.], seq 3291:3383, ack 9496, win 253, length 92
.@.u...
.~.>F(.N..P.(.o.&..P.......<!-- the rest of the xml --></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

I just want the text, and so I filter it using the following Python snippet:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
# @author: Carl-Erik Kopseng
import sys
import re

length_of_tcp_packet = -1
combined_data = ""
for line in sys.stdin:
  pattern = '\d\d:\d\d:\d\d.*, length (\d+)'
  match = re.match(pattern, line)

  if match is None :
    if length_of_tcp_packet <= 0:
      continue
    combined_data += "" + line
  else:
    sys.stdout.write( combined_data[-(length_of_tcp_packet+1):-1] )

    length_of_tcp_packet = int(match.group(1))
    combined_data = ""

sys.stdout.write( combined_data )

If the above commands were saved in “read_dump_file.sh” and “print_clean_data_packets_in_ASCII.py” you could then filter the dump file by running
./read_dump_file.sh < dump.dat | ./print_clean_data_packets_in_ASCII.py

and get the following clean output

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><SOAP-ENV:Header><wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><wsse:UsernameToken SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand="1"><wsse:Username><!-- more xml --><!-- the rest of the xml --></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Usually there is a lot more than just SOAP calls going in and out, and to filter out just the SOAP calls I usually also pipe the output through the following sed script for the final touch
sed -n '/<[a-zA-Z:-]*Envelope/,/<\/[a-zA-Z].*:Envelope>/ p' $@

Hope this is of help to someone out there

I am using the GNU version of sed (the Linux and CygWin version), so substitute “-r” for “-E” if using the BSD version (as on OS X).

tail -80000 /var/log/apache2/access_log > tail.txt
egrep "POST /chart/" tail.txt \
|sed -r -n 's/.*chart\/(get[a-zA-Z]+).*/\1/p' \
| sort > sortert

for word in $(uniq < sortert); do
/bin/echo -n "$word : ";
grep $word sortert |wc -l;
done \
| sed -r -n 's/([a-zA-Z]+) : (.+)/\2\t\1/p' \
|sort -g

The problem was mainly due to trying to match square brackets, such as in “final public int[] myMethod(int[] args)”. To substitute this expression in Vim with “public int[] myMethod(int[] args)” I used the following expression:

s/final \([_a-zA-Z0-9\[\]<> ]*\)(/\1(/

The problem was that sed did not cope well with the same expression. After reading up on sed’s syntax on the man page for “re_format” I found out that the left square bracket had to follow immediately after the right and that the right square bracket would need to be escaped. Why this inconsistency? I have no idea. But this means that to match an expression such as “int[]” I would need a regex like this “[]\[a-z]“. So the equivalent expression of the Vi regex above is

s/final \([]\[_a-zA-Z<> ]*\)/\1/

This could be used to replace all final modifiers from methods in Java source. A document like
final public class Test {
final public void method1() { }
final public List<Integer> method2() { }
final public List<Integer> method3() { }
final public int[] method4(List<Integer> liste) { }
public List<Integer> non_final_method() { }
}
would turn into
final public class Test {
public void method1() { }
public List<Integer> method2() { }
public List<Integer> method3() { }
public int[] method4(List<Integer> liste) { }
public List<Integer> non_final_method() { }
}

Now, why does that work, and why does it work with the quotation marks in the shell? The reason is simply that if you run your program from the shell, it removes the quotes before handing it over to the jvm. So when you are running
java -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8" MainClass you are really running
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 MainClass.
Whereas when you are specifying this in a configuration file, as Glassfish does for example, these quotes will be part of the string used as the value of the parameter.

The actual reason why it fails with an exception can be found in the source code for CharSet. There you will se that the checkName() method throws an error if the charset name contains any other characters than [a-zA-Z0-9-.]. As quote (“) is not in that range, the exception is thrown.

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.nio.charset.IllegalCharsetNameException: "UTF-8"
at java.nio.charset.Charset.checkName(Charset.java:284)
at java.nio.charset.Charset.lookup2(Charset.java:458)
at java.nio.charset.Charset.lookup(Charset.java:437)
at java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset(Charset.java:579)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.forOutputStreamWriter(StreamEncoder.java:37)
at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.(OutputStreamWriter.java:94)
at java.io.PrintStream.(PrintStream.java:100)
at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1083)

This error can be seen in many different cases, such as configuring Grails, Glassfish, and many others where configuration files are being used to set jvm parameters.

Var på en fin visning av Hansen i Norwegian Rains/T. Michaels lokaler i dag. Hansen (ved sjefsdesigner Åse Helen Hansen) har en karakteristisk stil som føles veldig dansk; naturmaterialer, god kvalitet, ikke strengt, men deilig og ledig å ha på. Kanskje en effekt av flere års utlendighet i Danmark? Det skal sies at Åse er ekte bergenser – på lik linje med Silje og Aleksander som driver butikken i Kirkegata – en butikk som er det nærmeste man kommer bergensbølgen i tekstilform. (Aleksander Helle har faktisk leflet med tanken på å utvide butikken til en showcase for noe mer enn bare bergenske tekstiler. Kanskje et eget Tellé Records-hjørne ville gjort seg?)

Klær produsert med ull fra Gudbrandsdalen eller restpartier av engelsk høykvalitets tweed fra en ære som lengst er forbi blir naturligvis ikke billig. På den annen side er mange av klærne nærmest for investeringer å regne; kvaliteten er så god at man kan regne med å ha dem i år etter år. I samtale med Åses danske kjæreste om hvordan virkelig gode klær blir ens favorittøy med tiden, kom det utsagnet som fikk synapsene mine til å fyre av som et fyrverkeri:

Det er viktig at (…) sjelen må få tid til å flytte inn i klærne.

Jeg likte det så godt at jeg bare måtte få det ut – noe dette innlegget bare er en dårlig unnskyldning for

The key missing part of getting it working after installing the plugin through the IntelliJ plugin wizard is to enable the Infinitest facet for your project. Right click on the project, choose facet, add Infinitest and voila! You now have a new tab called Infinitest.

There are links for other operating systems, but these lead to the online installers. Duh! Fortunately I found a trick by looking at the URL generated for the online installer, where I saw that two parameter that could be used to select the right version:
platform and hl.

Example url: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1&platform=win&hl=no

The url above would select a standalone (offline) installer for Windows where the language version would be Norwegian. Cool,huh?

Platform choices are: “mac”, “win” and “linux

Getting online

Getting online the first time was a no-brainer. The order in which you do this do not matter:

• Open the Network pane and add Bluetooth PAN
• Set up Bluetooth device and answer the questions that might pop up on your phone.
• Choose the device from the drop-down list and press connect

That should be it! But you might experience problems – as I did.

Troubleshooting

Getting online the first time went like a breeze. But then for some reason I decided to redo the installation, and then, after pairing the phone with my Mac I got the following error:

Bluetooth Setup Assistant can’t set up your device as a dial-up modem because the Bluetooth interface isn’t available. Open Network preferences to add it.

What? An endless loop of trying to add/remove Bluetooth PAN/DUN from the Network Panel, the phone from Bluetooth devices, rebooting, etc. commenced, and every time I tried to go through the hoops again, I was confronted with the same error message. What to do? I called Apple Support. Which at first was pretty useless, saying they do not support Sony Ericsson, etc, blah, blah, blah, and basically wanted to hang up. But since this error message did not concern Sony Ericsson, but rather the setup of the machine (missing interface, remember?), I convinced the support to hang on a bit and try harder to find a solution. Then after asking me about the exact error message she asked me to do the following which turned out to solve all my problems:

1. Turn off the  machine and reset the power supply. Plug in the power cord. Turn off the machine. The resetting is done by pressing the power button while holding Ctrl-Option-Shift. This should (visually) do nothing, but does do something under the hood.
2. Reset PRAM. Quoting Apple on what this does:
   

   A small amount of your computer’s memory, called “parameter random-access memory” or PRAM, stores certain settings in a location that Mac OS X can access quickly.

   This could explain why even after removing the phone from the installed Bluetooth devices, it stilled showed up in the “Connect” list in Network Panels “Bluetooth PAN” section. If it was still being referenced from PRAM (and not the disk settings), it might cause some flukes. OK, so I tried resetting, which is done by shutting down the computer, holding Cmd-Option-P-R and pushing the power button. Keep the buttons pressed until you hear the startup sound for the second time. The PRAM is now reset.

After turning on my machine and trying to pair the phone, I was suddenly prompted by my phone: “Allow using this as a modem?”. Success! After pressing yes, and dismissing the next dialogs I could finally connect using the Bluetooth PAN dialog.

Links

• Resetting PRAM (Apple)
• Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM
• Picture of the dialog with the mentioned error message

Simply type
nmblookup name-of-the-machine
(where name-of-the-machine obviously is the samba configured name) will pop out a result like this
querying name-of-the-machine on 192.168.10.0
192.168.10.114


if (asList(foo, bar, baz, fooFoo, fooBar, fooBaz, barFoo, barBar, barBaz )
           .contains(null)) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("No objects are allowed to be null");
}

Here I have used static imports to be able to simply write asList() instead of Arrays.asList(). Hope it turns out useful for someone