ubuntu-10.04

Problem launching android AVM/SDK gui using the tools/android executable in the android SDK. Ubuntu 10.04, i686

Hi I just installed the android SDK along with Eclipse 3.5 on my i686 Thinkpad T60 running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). (Eclipse was installed via synaptic, i.e. a package from the repository.) I installed the eclipse add on and everything on the Eclipse end seems fine. I also put the android-sdk tools directory on my user PATH. Now launchin...

how to uninstall linux without affecting the windows xp which is in a dual boot

hi guys, i need to uninstall ubuntu from my machine where i have a dual boot with windows xp, i know what to do but problem is to do that i don't have my windows xp cd with me now! now how can i uninstall ubuntu from my machine and reset the windows loader by removing the grub boot loader? is there any such method? regards, Rangana. ...

'html.sty' and latex2e

I need to install the file 'html.sty', but don't know what package it's in. I think I need to install something called latex2e, but I don't know what package has that. ...

How to use sudo over SFTP with CyberDuck?

I'm copying this question from over here: http://getsatisfaction.com/cyberduck/topics/can_i_use_sudo_over_sftp_with_cyberduck I am having the same issue and finding it hard to find an answer: I am using Cyberduck over SFTP. I can connect and browse files fine, but when I try to upload, I get a permissions error. Web host says ...

Dbus python and suspend with lock screen

Hi, I was wondering and also try to do it, how to lock and suspend computer using dbus interface. I am able to suspend system using org.freedesktop.UPower with method Suspend(). I also am able to lock system using org.gnome.ScreenSaver with method Lock(). But how to do it at the same time? Is it good way to use signal Suspend ? or the...

Query DNS in Ubuntu

Hello, I use two DNS servers a public one (8.8.8.8) and a local one (192.168.1.20) In ubuntu, If I wrote both DNSs 192.168.1.20, 8.8.8.8 it will always query the first and until the first is down and then it will start querying the second. And of course I have to make the local point again to 8.8.8.8 Like this i have almost no problems...

Netbeans on Ubuntu not saving panel locations

Whenever I fire up netbeans on ubuntu the locations of the panels from my last session is not saved, unlike the behavior on windows. I installed netbeans using OS independent package not through the package manager, and placed the extracted folder to /opt/netbeans Everything works ok, but for example the netbeans "Output" panel always ...

Python daemon will not run in background on Ubuntu

Hi, My python daemon runs fine in the foreground of my Ubuntu system using this command in the terminal: python /opt/my-daemon.py foreground However when I try to call the daemon using the "start" command it fails, why? python /opt/my-daemon.py start This is how I call the command in the /etc/rc.local file: python /opt/my-d...

The most efficient way to setup MySQL on Ubuntu Server 10 LTS?

Very soon I will setting up a web server for a client who has a very busy site. He has a forum (run on Simple Machines Forum SMF written in PHP) that cannot really be changed. I want to move this to a separate virtual private server on it's own, as it's very busy at around 40,000 hits a day with 400+ posts a day. With the version of SMF ...

Getting permission denied for logging in tomcat.

I have a log4j.properties file as part of my application. #Updated at Thu Apr 01 14:30:43 GST 2010 #Thu Apr 01 14:30:43 GST 2010 log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout, R log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.Pat...

Tab key, arrow keys and page up/down keys donot work on Firefox on Ubuntu 1.04 LTS

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and Firfox 3.6.3. The tab key, arrow keys and page up / down keys have suddenly stopped working when on Firefox. They work fine on any other application (like Google chrome). I am not sure what is happening and how they got disabled, only for firefox. ...

How to mount virtualbox shared folder on Ubuntu server 10.04 + GUI/sbin/mount.vboxsf mouning failed with error: no such device

Hello i'm new to this forum but i've been a occasional vbox user. I had windows 7 host and ubuntu 9.10 guest which works fine with vboxadditions installed, share folder and everything perfect. Now for some simulations i needed to have the ubuntu server 10.04 intall with x-window. what i did and so far so good. now the problem i'm having...

High %wa CPU load when running PHP as CLI

Sorry for the vague question, but I've just written some php code that executes itself as CLI, and I'm pretty sure it's misbehaving. When I run "top" on the command line it's showing very little resources given to any individual process, but between 40-98% to iowait time (%wa). I usually have about .7% distributed between %us and %sy, wi...

Favorite Google App Engines Tips and Features

When starting with any new major library or system, I go to StackOverflow for the "What should I know?" questions. The answers might be subjective, but the advice usually saves me many hours of trouble. So far, I have burned a number of hours on Google App Engine tripping over the same issues that more experienced developers here alrea...

Create a xubuntu remotely through an ssh session instead of an xfce4 session

I'm attempting to startup a xubuntu session remotely though 'ssh -X' and I'm able to execute startxfce4 to bring up the standard xfce4 session but when I log in locally there is a 'Xubuntu session' choice which looks different then xfce4. What is the correct command line statement to bring up the full xubuntu display? ...

Gtk conversation effect

Hi, I was using some gnome applications like empathy and gwibber, and was wondering how to create a "conversation" effect in my own gtk application. E.g. http://www.ubuntu.com.cn/files/1004features/01.jpg (off google, not my site) Thanks ...

remote jconsole session to ec2 box - how?

How do I turn off ssh login with pem authentication on an ubuntu ec2 instance to allow for a remote jconsole session? I am on an Ubuntu Lucid EBS-backed AMI. I tried changing the two lines below to no, but get a permission denied error: RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes My ssh_d config file: # Package generated configu...

SSH Scp - can't specify local path where to copy files from server

Hi, i'm trying to download .zip file from bluehost server to my computer. Like this - scp username@domainname:/pathof/file.zip /home/Public/username/ I found out, when writing local address (where i want to put file) still refers to server address (pressing tab). What am i doing wrong ? ...

rhino vs spidermonkey

I noticed ubuntu 10.04 removed the spidermonkey package. Rhino looks like it's still there though. What are the differences between rhino and spidermonkey (besides what language they're written in). And why did they remove spidermonkey? ...

Eclipse, change popup text background color when hovering the mouse on a keyword

Ubuntu 10.04.1 new theme has by default windows background colors set to black. I don't want to change that. In Eclipse, the interface didn't change much due to 10.04.1 - except one annoying thing: when the mouse stops on a keyword - variable for instance - the type (...) of that keyword is displayed in a small pop-up window. However, ...