Computer Build References

These are some places to look before building a computer from parts:

https://pcpartpicker.com/
http://www.logicalincrements.com/

Windows Defender and Windows Server 2016

I had failed a lot in my attempts to stop Windows Defender on Windows Server 2016, but I think this might have finally worked for me:

In powershell type the command:

Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Name Windows-Defender

cygwin terminal cls command

The cls command that Windows can do in a cmd window is useful in many cases.
Here is how to add it to cygwin.

Put this somewhere in your ~/.bashrc file:

alias cls='printf "\033c"'

Restart Chrome and restore all tabs

Sometimes I need to restart all of Chrome.
It looks like the graphics driver dies and restarts, after which some Chrome windows have broken frames where I cannot click on minimize and such.

Do this to kill all chrome processes at once, after which - so far - it has offered to reopen my tabs on restart.

In a CMD shell:
taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F

Java show classes and jars that are loaded

Java show classes and jars that are loaded by using this jvm option:

-verbose:class

With spring, call any java code from applicationcontext.xml via expressions and while creating beans.

I found that arbitrary java can be called with spring from the applicationcontext.xml file.
See these:
https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/expressions.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11645477/how-to-store-password-as-encrypted-in-properties-file-in-spring

For example:

<property name="password" value="#{T(blah.myEncryption).decrypt('${whereever.props.are.stored.password}')}" />

Great regex info

This site has great info about regex:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/