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Authorization in Rails

Who can show me how I must use declarative_authorization (http://github.com/stffn/declarative_authorization) with restfult_authentication (http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication)? ...

r cannot be resolved on ubuntu + eclipse + android sdk

Hi i have erorr "R cannot be resolved" everytime when i create android project in eclipse under ubuntu with android sdk. In windows everything ok. What's wrong? ...

How do I connect to mysql from php ?

Hi guys. I'm working through examples from a book on php/mysql development. I'm working on a linux/apache environment. I've set up a database and a user. I attempt to connect with this line of code: $db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password); I get this error: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-c...

How to restore from hotcopy backup in Trac

I have a hotcopy backup file from the trac sudo trac-admin /trac/projectname hotcopy /home/user/desktop/projctname.tracbkp How do i restore this into another project says "projectName2" ...

Any other ways to install heroku except gem install

Hi, Command gem install heroku failed with following messsage and I have tried the solution here , but failed also. So , is there any other way i can install heroku? WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance. ERROR: could not f...

Get recursive list of svn:ignore'd files

I have an existing project repo which I use for project A, and has some files and directories excluded from it using svn:ignore. I want to start another project (project B), in a new repo, with approximately the same files ignored in it. How can I get a list of all files in the repo with svn:ignore set on them and the value of that prop...

python unichr problem

I've got some problem with unichr() on my server. Please see below: On my server (Ubuntu 9.04): >>> print unichr(255) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) On my desktop (Ubuntu 9.10): >>> prin...

Run Application Command to open Terminal

Question: What command do you type in to the "Run Application" box on ubuntu to open the terminal? Info: I'm having horrible horrible driver issues on my netbook. I might be able to solve some of these problems if I could just get to Terminal, but all I have is my keyboard, no mouse, so i need to know what command to type in to run ap...

SSH session becomes unresponsive when logged into Ubuntu Server virtual machine using VirtualBox

Hi everyone, I'm really at my wits end here, so I'm hoping someone here can help me. I have a virtual machine running Ubuntu Server 9.10. It's just a small development environment so I can keep my code separate from the test and production environments. I am running it through VirtualBox 3.1.6 on a laptop running Ubuntu Desktop 9.10. I ...

Using Library files in Linux

Hi Guys, Im trying to use some of the functions that are in the /lib/libproc-3.2.6.so library in my Ubuntu Distribution. I have downloaded and installed the header files and they are defined in my source files. Currently this is all im trying to do, just for starters... proc_t **read_proc = readproctab(0); But i get the following...

How to generate pdf from docbook 5.0.

I've written a docbook 5.0 document with the header: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <book version="5.0" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/Ma...

error: gnome.h: No such file or directory

I would like to resolve this 'error: gnome.h: No such file or directory ' on ubuntu. I get this error: /bin/sh: gnome-config: not found In file included from TestMDI.cpp:18: ../../../../dist/include/system_wrappers/gnome.h:3:24: error: gnome.h: No such file or directory From this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=295105 I tr...

install ejabberd on amazon

Hi, I app-get and success install ejabberd on amazon , mounted esb drive as /dev/sda , but then, i terminated the image and fire any new 'same image', attached my esb drive , all my previous installation was lost. anyway to persist my installation or files i added to the os? when my instance is running and i right click and see 'bundl...

Compile rt73 driver (serialmonkey) on Ubuntu

Hello. I'm trying to compile some WiFi drivers I downloaded from SerialMonkey: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads It's about a driver for a Ralink rt73 chipset. I already got the build-essentials and the kernel-headers on my computer. When I try to compile the driver using the "make" command I get this error: roo...

Setup SSL (self signed cert) with tomcat

I am mostly following this page: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html I used this command to create the keystore keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore /etc/tomcat6/keystore and answered the prompts Then i edited my server.xml file and uncommented/edited this line <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP...

eclipse galileo not responding ubuntu 64-bit

I'm having a problem with eclipse galileo on ubuntu 64-bit system. when ever i open it the splash scree turns gray but keeps loading and then when eclipse opens it shows the secure storage password request and hangs. I dont know what could be wrong, it used to work fine before, if you have or had the same problem please tell me what to d...

Starting RMI server on ubuntu laptop

Hello, I wrote a server-client rmi application and I'm using MacOsX and Ubuntu laptops to test them. When I start rmiregistry and the server on MacOsX, I can see the details in the netstat that the port 1099 is open and used. Then If I try to use the RMI, using the client from Ubuntu laptop - it works fine. However, when I try things ...

How to secure phpMyAdmin

Hi, I have noticed that there are strange requests to my website trying to find phpmyadmin, like /phpmyadmin/ /pma/ etc. Now I have installed PMA on Ubuntu via apt and would like to access it via webaddress different from /phpmyadmin/. What can I do to change it? Thanks Update For Ubuntu 9.10 and Apache2, the corresponding sett...

Character Encoding, UTF or ANSI?

I'm using Eclipse in Ubuntu to edit PHP files. But, unfortunately, some of these PHP files were created in Notepad++ in Windows XP, with ANSI encoding defined. Also, these files generates HTML codes with charset=ISO-8859-1. When I configured Eclipse to ISO-8859-1, many special characters were lost and changed to '???', and when I try ...

Problem to focus JTextField

(Problem occur in Ubuntu only. Works fine in Windows. I don't know in other Linux environments) I have used the approach of the ComponentListener to call focus in JTextField within a dialog, but for this case is just not working, I don't know why. It shows the focus in the text field and fast change to the button. Run and see: import j...