Linux
Solving the infinite GRUB loop (GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB) problem
Monday, August 30th, 2010Sometimes, especially after changes to the hard drive or changes to partitioning, you will find that your Linux computer would no longer boot, but instead fill the screen up with GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB, etc infinitely without giving the boot menu, and the only way to exit out would have [...]
Setting up a HTTP Gateway on Ubuntu 10.04
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010An HTTP gateway is one of the ways that one can host multiple sites using only one external IP. The way that it works is that the user requests the page from the gateway and specifies which host was requested. The gateway server then forwards the request to the appropriate web server, which then returns [...]
Setting up a Subversion server using Apache on Ubuntu
Monday, August 9th, 2010Subversion is an excellent open-source solution for keeping track of the different versions while developing software. Here, we will see how to set up a subversion server on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server to provide programmers with the ability to use Subversion.
Prerequisities
Apache 2 should have already been installed and configured with SSL – if not, [...]
Updated Roadsend PHP Compiler 2.9.8 packages
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Due to the vast interest in our previous binary package of Roadsend PHP, we have decided to compile a newer, updated version of the Roadsend PHP compiler (v2.9.8). However, due to previous flaws in the way that we compiled the previous PHP compile, many of our readers struggled or were entirely unable to get the [...]
How to add entries by UUID to /etc/fstab
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Normally in Linux, one would be able to add entries to the /etc/fstab file by using the standard /dev/xdx notation. However, what happens when we add or remove some partitions and hard disks? In this case, it would completely throw off the entries resulting in you not being able to access your partition. As a [...]
Fixing “Write Error – the file could not be written” error in OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu
Thursday, May 6th, 2010In OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu by default, the package openoffice.org-java-common is not installed. As a result, when you try to save using some filters in OpenOffice.org that require the Java Runtime, you may experience the error as a result. To fix, this install the package openoffice.org-java-common:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-java-common
This should fix the error, however you must [...]
How to enable symlink following in Samba
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010After a recent samba update, it appears that the Samba team has decided to set their default for the “unix extensions” to yes after an update. Unfortunately, even though this means that Unix clients will now be able to create symlinks on smbfs-mounted file system, it still means that some Unix clients who wish to [...]
How to force a CD/DVD drive to eject in Linux
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Usually, the CD drive in Linux is pretty permissive just like in Windows, where one can eject and insert discs at any time. However, sometimes some random bugs in various application show up when you eject a disk while reading, and the operating system no longer honours any requests to eject (e.g. pressing the eject [...]
Paint.NET on Ubuntu Linux 9.10
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Paint.NET is a very powerful yet simple to use raster graphics editor that used to be under the free MIT-license. Even though the author has now closed its sources we can always run an older version of it (3.0) since there are no effective major changes. There is already a porting in progress by Miguel [...]
Fixing “/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb failed” error in Ubuntu
Saturday, January 16th, 2010The new setups for printing has been modernized in Ubuntu 9.10 and 9.04 work perfectly most of the time, but sometimes a misbehaving script or update decides to have it’s own mind and messes up all the permissions for CUPS to work properly. Here is a guide to restore the former printing versatility before the mess-up.
To [...]