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Install Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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

Access Windows File Sharing from Ubuntu

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.

Top Web Development – authoring tools for Linux

Here are some Web development – Web Authoring tools for Linux :
1. Quanta Plus – http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/- Simple and powerful

Enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 8.04

Mod_rewrite is an apache module which enables rewriting of urls requested by client before the pages are fetched by apache. For example www.site.com/products.php?code=459 can be written as www.site.com/products/459 or www.site.com/products/459.html . The second url is re-written into the first one by mod_rewrite using rewrite rules specified in the .htaccess file.

Apache for Multiple Users Linux – Ubuntu

When Apache is installed all web files go in he directory /var/www.
If there are multiple users on a system then every user can have his own web directory to store web files.
On Linux the following commands does that :

Make GTK Applications look good in KDE

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Go to the Synaptic Package Manager and look for a package called gtk-qt-engine. Install it and your gtk applications like mozilla should look fine in KDE Desktop , especially the fonts.

BSNL Broadband Modem USB connection in RedHat 9.0

Huawei SmartAx MT882 is one of the ADSL modems BSNL provides with their broadband service. The modem/router comes with 2 options for interfacing an Ethernet RJ45 or a USB port. Connecting via an ethernet port isnt too much of a mess as long as the ethernet card is working fine with the OS under consideration. [...]

Windows on one hard disk, Fedora core on the other and GRUB nowhere

It was when I installed a new hard disk keeping along the existing one. So the new configuration was a 80GB + 40GB. I installed Windows on the first hard disk and Fedora Core 5.0 on the second one. And the simple problem that I faced , was that GRUB was simply not coming. And [...]