In case anyone else was having this issue.

I was getting a multipart file upload error with the latest version of mod_jk: 1.2.30:

org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartException: Could not parse multipart servlet request; nested exception is org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException

When I downgraded to 1.2.28 it went away.

Update:  I was wrong, it doesn’t work.  Will keep working on it.

I recently had issue setting up the credentials closure for the BuildConfig.groovy in my grails 1.3.1 project that was validating against a secured maven repository.  The password was encrypted with DES.

What solved it for me was to have the host set up properly.  I gathered this from the dependency logs from grails.

My wife’s hard drive went bad in her MacBook.  We had been backing up with Time Machine over wireless.  This was very nice and convenient because it allowed for her to get backups without ever consciously plugging anything in.  However I quickly realized when trying to restore the hard drive from the wireless that it was going to take too long.  In fact I wasn’t even sure it was working it was sitting at the back up screen for so long with no feedback.

I wanted to take my USB hard drive that is plugged into the back of my airport and restore from there.  The issue is that when Time Machine backs up wirelessly it isn’t the same as if it is on a normal external hard drive.  It is stored in a sparsebundle which is actually kind of cool, but not needed here.

To restore you time machine:

1. Plug in your usb hard drive.
2. Mount the image of the .sparsebundle by right clicking and open with disk mount app.  Some people seem to report a problem with it not mounting and say that it would help to drag it into the Disk Utility app and mount it from there.
3. You can run your Migration Assistant app now and it will be WAY faster.  In fact once it is mounted it will be browsable if you need to grab that one file off while it restores.

Hope that helps someone.