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I’m cited in an O’Reilly book

My base conversion JavaScript utility is referenced in Chapter 4 of Web Security Testing Cookbook.

O’Reilly lets you preview the entire book, so here’s a screen capture of the page in question:

Netflix data sorted user list

User IDs for the Netflix data go to 2649081 but there are not that many users — there are *only* 480189. If you would like a text file of the user IDs sorted from least to greatest, your search is over. Just click here.
Update: I added how many movies each user rated to [...]

Java OutOfMemoryError in eclipse

Getting this and you want to use Eclipse?
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Find the Preferences menu item. For me, in OS X, this is under the “Eclipse” menu item. Click on the “Java” item in the box which comes up. Click on the “Installed JREs” sub-menu item. Select your JRE and click “Edit”. [...]

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Getting that error? Try allocating more heap space when executing your Java application. Use this command from your command line:
java -Xmx512m YourApplication