Sorry for the second newbie question, I'm a developer not a sysadmin so this is all quite new to me. I hope I can explain myself clearly! Here goes. Here's what I did: Logged into the root account Created the accounts 'richard' and 'austin' Created the group 'developers', and added 'richard' and 'austin' to it Created the directory /s...
I'm trying to learn to use SDL for a little game I'm writing , but I have a problem . One single application can play sound at a given time on my system . If for example I have amarok or kaffeine ( or even firefox while playing a flash video ) , no other application can play sound . The only solution I've found is to run just an applicat...
I have a Rails app that I have successfully tested with Mongrel and Webkit. Now I want to test deployment. I set up a VMWare Image using Ubuntu 8.04. I have installed Rails following this method https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails with the exception of using Gems 1.3 instead of 1.2. I have configured and installed Passenger...
How do I change the system-wide short date format in Ubuntu? For example, Thunderbird is showing dates in the DD/MM/YY format, and I would like to change it to MM/DD/YY or YYYY-MM-DD. The best information I can find so far is in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=193916 Edit: I want to change the system-wide date f...
Actually I will want to use that JeOS for our webserver. Is it a good choice? ...
How can I, in Java or using some other programming language, add a new program group in the applications menu in both KDE and Gnome? I am testing with Ubuntu and Kubuntu 8. Putting a simple .menu file in ~/.config/menus/applications-merged worked in Kubuntu, but the same procedure does nothing in Ubuntu. The content of my file is as f...
Is there an easy way of cloning entire installed debian/ubuntu system? I want to have identical installation in terms of installed packages and as much as possible of settings. I've looked into options of aptitude, apt-get, synaptic but have found nothing. ...
I am doing .net programming in addition to c and c++ development and want more flexibility on my home machine. I want to be able to have both Linux (probably Ubuntu) and Windows Vista on my home computer. Is there a way I can install both and on boot be prompted for which one to start? Is there a way to set Windows to default? I have...
Hi there; I'd like to be able to run my aliases from my .bashrc in the "Run Application" dialog that comes up when you hit Alt+F2 in Ubuntu/Gnome. Does anyone know how to do this? ...
I'm looking at maybe moving from an older AMD64 to a new Intel dual-core which is 32 bit. Installation isn't a problem but can I transfer all the installed apps? I haven't been able to find anything so far on Google except where the migration is to a similar platform and file-system. I won't change the filesystem but the platform will be...
Odd behavior loading emacs on ubuntu, there seems to be some initialization that goes on that is not in the .emacs nor in any of the files emacs reports loading through "emacs --debug-init". I've found some references to font-related resizing but this behavior doesn't seem to be limited to that (e.g reappearing menus and toolbars). Doe...
My VPS provider (Slicehost) doesn't provide an SMTP server. I use Google Apps to send and receive mail for my domains, but I want to be able to programmatically send e-mail. I've been Googling this issue on and off for many months, and I just can't seem to get a clear picture of what I need to do. Do I just need an MTA like postfix? ...
I am planning to move my vmWare's Virtual Machines from a Windows host to a Linux host (Ubuntu). It is possible to run vmWare Server in a Linux host that does not have the graphical environment (does not have X)? I just wonder how the graphical setup of Windows/Linux guest work in this case. Thanks in advance for your time. Victor Mar...
I am in the process of setting up the wso2 php web services framework on my ubuntu 8.04 development server. However my webservice is failing. Looking into the wsf_client.log (custom log for the framework) file gives me the error in the question. I belive the error is returned from axis, but I have no idea how to fix it and would be gra...
Hi, I'm trying to set up a virtual host on a new VPS using apache 2.x on a Ubuntu server. When starting apache I get the error " xxx.241.214.xxx:80 has no VirtualHosts", and the url for the site still points to the default location which means my virtual host file isn't taking effect: <VirtualHost xxx.241.214.xxx:80> ServerName xxx.co...
I recently downloaded the source tarball for a GTK application that I'd like to improve. It uses the standard ./configure and make build sequence. The first time through, configure reported a bunch of unmet build dependencies, such as libgnomeui-2.0. As I usually do, I had to manually go through and find the Debian *-dev package names...
I've got an unmanaged Linux VPS running ubuntu that I'm using for the web server for a personal website. I'd like to get a barebones email server up and running. All the installation guides I've found so far are for a full-fledged email server with a webmail interface and everything. That's a lot more than I need. There's only two th...
I want to buy a laptop for programming under linux and I have no idea what specific problems can appear (like "no drivers for device", "impossible to hibernate" and so on...) What should I think of when selecting new laptop for linux? I will run Ubuntu, C++, SBCL, ghc. This laptop is not gonna be graphics-oriented. I've already owned ...
I've been using virtualenv lately while developing in python. I like the idea of a segregated development environment using the --no-site-packages option, but doing this while developing a PyGTK app can be a bit tricky. The PyGTK modules are installed on Ubuntu by default, and I would like to make a virtualenv (with --no-site-packages) a...
I have a private repository with bitbucket. I'm using Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 0.9.3) on Ubuntu. When I try to clone my repository, I'm prompted for my username and password which I enter correctly. as a result i get: abort: authorization failed This works perfectly fine from windows. I just want to make sure I'm not missi...