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Which is the best OS (Ubuntu, Windows, Mac, ...) platform to develop Flex Application without headache ?

I believe that OS is Windows or Mac to develop Flex application without headache. I'm working on Ubuntu. I try to use AXDT or Flex Builder 3 for linux to develop AS3. But everytime i change OS to windows when i develop Flex. What is your opinion ? ...

WHERE is tomcat.conf in ubuntu ?

I can't find it, I have looked at: /etc/tomcat6 cd ~tomcat6 -> /usr/share/tomcat6 Where can I find the tomcat.conf in Linux Ubuntu? ...

Using Ruby And Ubuntu With Optical Character Recognition

I am a university student and it's time to buy textbooks again. This quarter there are over 20 books I need for classes. Normally this wouldn't be such a big deal, as I would just copy and paste the ISBNs into Amazon. The ISBNs, however, are converted into an image on my school's book site. All I want to do is get the ISBNs into a string...

Setting up OpenGL on Linux

I have a specific problem. I am starting learning OpenGL and I am not sure, how to set it up on (Ubuntu) Linux. I think that this could be a way: ======================================================================== OpenGL is only a graphics language "specification" (or "interface") and to properly use it I have to download some lib...

How to output a frequency 1kHz and power/volume = 60% in Linux (Ubuntu)?

How to output a frequency 1kHz and power/volume = 60% in Linux (Ubuntu)? I need sample code in C/C++. Thanks! ...

ubuntu: share a folder to be used by all user in group

I want to share a folder among all users of a group : dev. So that all files are regardless of the owner can be edited by anyone in the group. I have created the shared folder and set the respective permissions to the folder. When a user creates a new file in that folder it belongs to owner:dev But the permission for the files are rw-r...

I exported via mysqldump to a file. How do I find out the file encoding of the file ?

Given a text file in ubuntu (or debian unix in general), how do I find out the file encoding of the file ? Can I run od or hexdump on it to fingerprint its encoding ? What should I be looking out for ? ...

cant install rails in ubuntu 9.10 in my eee pc

i am trying to install rails in my eee pc with the last version of ubuntu and i have some package that are told installable.how is it possible?i can even install gem fenec@fenec-laptop:~$ gem The program 'gem' can be found in the following packages: * rubygems1.8 * rubygems1.9.1 Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package> gem: comman...

making ruby 1.9 the default ruby on ubuntu

Is there any way, on Ubuntu 9.04, to install ruby 1.8 as ruby1.8 (or get rid of it altogether) and have ruby 1.9 be the default ruby? ...

Why does tomcat6 have folders in both /var/lib/ and /usr/share/?

I'm new to Linux, and I don't understand why apt-get install tomcat6 resulted in two tomcat6 folders, one in /var/lib/, the other in /usr/share/. I'm sure there is a good reason for it, but it caused me a few hours confusion with nothing working. What's the deal? ...

Samba server issues

I have setup a new linux box that I am tinkering with. One item that I have always setup is samba so that I can easily copy files to and from the server. The reason I bring this topic up is I am not able to browse to the samba shares from my windows machine. Any help with this is greatly appreciated. The issue that I am having is whe...

A cellphone emulator

Hi. I want to run a cellphone emulator on Ubuntu. I am not picky about any particular cellphone as I am not using it for mobile development instead just to run a small software to generate keys for my personal purpose; as the software is not compatible for ubuntu but is present for cellphones. Do let me know a suitable emulator source....

Linux - Any way to get global KeyPresses without xlib's RECORD? (DBus/HAL/etc?)

I was looking at how to capture global kepresses on Ubuntu Linux regardless of what window has focus. And people suggested some programmes to look at. But they all use the RECORD thing in XLib, which is broken in Ubuntu. Is there some other way to capture all the keypresses on Ubuntu? How about using HAL? DBus? ...

All-in-one PHP bundle for Ubuntu

I need to deploy Zend Framework app on Ubuntu. I've downloaded Ubuntu desktop, installed using apt-get apache+php+mysql, but PHP turned out to be not the latest 5.3, but 5.2.1 and even mysql extension is missing. I understand I can get somewhere a fresh php installation, get dependent libs (like curl or libxml2) compile them one by one...

How easy (or difficult) is it to migrate to a development environment on Mac from Ubuntu

I am used to Ubuntu, I like it, I know my way around it. I am looking forward to upgrade my work laptop. I find the awesome hardware that a Macbook Pro is made of, a turn-on. Now, having never used a mac before, I'd like to know how easy it is to move my development environment to a mac from being on Ubuntu. My work is primarily web ...

Other users can't access my svn repo

Question: How do I do I set it so that other users can access my svn repo with tortoise? Info: I have a svn repo set up on my little home server (Ubunt 9.04) and i'm trying to set things up so that my friends and I can work on some programing projects together. Right now I can get my account that i use for admin (we'll call it bob) t...

Binary files and cross platform compatability

I have written a C++ library that saves my data (a collection of custom structs etc) into a binary file. I currently use (i.e. CREATE and CONSUME) the files locally, on my Windows (XP) machine. For simplicity, lets think of the library in two parts: a WRITER (Creates the files) and a READER or CONSUMER (simply reads data from the files)....

using Ubuntu commands in php

Is it possible to use ubuntu terminal commands in php program.for example i need to create a folder and compress (.zip) it using php program. How to code this need? ...

Running ASP.NET and VB.Net in Ubuntu.

Hi. I have a LAN-based application programmed in ASP.NET with VB as its code-behind. Also, MYSQL for the database. I just want to ask if I can run my application in UBUNTU? Thanks a lot. ...

Mono Winforms application in Linux: some text is not displayed

In general, I have been having difficulties porting my .NET Windows Forms applications created in Visual Studio 2008 to Mono/Linux. The problem is that sometimes, some types of text do not get displayed; where I expect to see text there is just emptiness or illegible marks. On one Ubuntu machine, all the text was displayed correctly ex...