Archive for March, 2009
Postgresql , phpPGAdmin and pgadmin 3 can be installed from synaptic.
sudo apt-get install postgresqlsudo apt-get install phppgadminsudo apt-get install pgadmin3
After installation the postgres password of postgresql can be changed like this :
March 25th, 2009 | Posted in Ubuntu, postgresql | 3 Comments
openSuse presents a different kind of menu in gnome desktop that what appears in Ubuntu.
The menu can be added as an applet to the panel in Ubuntu gnome desktop also by installing the package :
March 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Ubuntu | No Comments
Automation may be needed in to order to run certain scripts at regular intervals for tasks like scraping , extracting or crawling data from web or do some regular tasks like sending emails or whatever.
March 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Cron, Linux, PHP, Unix | 2 Comments
If Konqueror is not showing the image thumbnails in the icons or previews then check :
1. Control Center > KDE Components > File Manager > Previews & Meta-Data for the Maximum File Size in the slider. If it is too low then increase it to say 5 MB.
March 22nd, 2009 | Posted in KDE, Linux, Ubuntu | No Comments
To install and run Tomcat on Ubuntu (8.04 over here) the following packages should be installed from synaptic :
1. tomcat5.52. tomcat5.5-webapps3. sun-java6-jdk
They can be installed from command line using the command sudo apt-get
March 21st, 2009 | Posted in Java, Linux, Tomcat, Ubuntu | No Comments
Some GUI tools that can be used to access windows shares (SMB) are :
1. xSMBrowser2. Smb4K3. TkSmb
Get them all from Synaptic. They are basically gui frontend for the smbclient command.Nautilus and Konqueror have the View Network options too and if they dont work the above 3 utilities may.
March 21st, 2009 | Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | No Comments
The PHP function set_time_limit is used to set a time limit on the maximum execution time of a script. But if the script has socket operations using fsockopen , fread and fwrite or even CURL then the set_time_limit may not appear to have any effect on the scripts timelimit or timeout.Again if safe mode is [...]
March 8th, 2009 | Posted in PHP | 1 Comment