If you have a file with dos format, simply open it with vim and type :e ++ff=unix to get it as unix file format. Supported file formats are: unix LF only dos CRLF mac CR only CR is carriage return (Ctrl-M, ^M or hex 0D). LF is linefeed (Ctrl-J, ^J or hex 0A)
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I recently tried to install oracle under ubuntu. I added a new user and could not start any x-windows as this new user. “xhost +” was the solution. oracle@orabox:/home/oracle/database$ xclock No protocol specified Error: Can’t open display: :0.0 root@orabox:/home/oracle/database# xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host root@orabox:/home/oracle/database# su oracle oracle@orabox:/home/oracle/database$ xclock
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I had the problem that starting my jboss application server was veeeeery slow – don’t know how long it would have taken as I always killed it after a few minutes. After some experiments with more memory without a change I removed all my breakpoints in the debug view of eclipse and voilá – it
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Magento creates lots of files and database entries no one really needs. So here is how I tried to clean up the mess – based on this script from the magento site http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/227/maintenance_script First I logged in into the shell and executed the following in the magento directory: rm -rf var/cache/* var/log/* var/report/* var/session/* var/tmp/*
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To mount an nfs filesystem under fedora 17 I had to take the following steps: sudo yum install nfs-utils sudo service rpcbind start sudo mount -o hard,intr,noatime 192.168.1.123:/nfs /mnt/nas The first step installs the needed libraries to be able to mount nfs. This is like nfs-common under debian based distris. The second step eliminates the
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First i installed alacarte and added my launcher as usual. Then I had to refresh the shell by pressing ALT+F2 and type r. After that my launcher appeared in the menu.
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moving the window buttons to the right has changed a bit since 12.04. Now you are able to use the following command to have the good old school button layout: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ‘menu:minimize,maximize,close’
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Eclipse uses the system username by default. This is not always useful. Especially if you can’t choose the username on your own. To get around this just add “-Duser.name=Max Mustmann” (without quotes!) in your eclipse.ini somewhere after vmargs.
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I recently managed to connect to office communicator under linux. First I installed pidgin-sipe and configured my account. But something seemed to be wrong with the ssl communication. So I copied over all ssl certificates from pidgin: cd ~/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers && sudo find . -type f -exec cp {} /etc/ssl/certs/{}.pem ;; sudo chmod a+r /etc/ssl/certs/* Then
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see http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1415/ for further information about the new features. To install it in ubuntu you could use Martin Pitt’s ppa under https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/postgresql sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.2 postgresql-client-9.2 WARNING: This won’t upgrade your 9.1 if you’ve already installed that. Of course you could get rid of your database with apt-get
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