On your Ubuntu (12.04/14.04/14.10/15.04) , if you have installed tomcat7 from the repositories then adding them as a server in Eclipse would need some tweaks. Getting the tomcat to be administrered from Eclipse makes it easy if you are developing enterprise applications on Java using Tomcat7 as your app server. I have used Eclipse for ...
SQLite3 is a simple and small relational database management system that works on a single file as a database. Very usefull for mini projects and hugely popular with apps on Android and other embedded systems. I will be outlining steps here required to setup SQLite3 with Java and Tomcat on Ubuntu Linux machine. Install SQLite3 ...
As of Ubuntu 14.10, the default subversion package from the repos is version 1.8. I will underline the steps required to install Subversion 1.7.x for Ubuntu based systems here. I needed 1.7.x for compatibility reasons. To begin with, I could not find any ppa that had subversion Ubuntu package for version 1.7. Hence I had ...
I tried to burn a Linux ISO to a bootable USB disk, and while booting the disk, it failed with the below error message: Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32 boot: Apparently this is due to a recent change in syslinux library modules. Not sure if its a bug Unetbootin can fix or any ...
On Ubuntu / Mint or any other debian platforms we can easily convert mkv video files to mp4 files using the libav-tool . avconv is the replacement for ffmpeg. user@computer:$ sudo apt-get install libav-tool user@computer:$ avconv -i inputfile.mkv -codec copy outputfile.mp4 Further documentation for avconv can be found here. Source.
When I installed Linux Mint 14 on my Dell E6400 Latitude laptop, the Wireless driver was not installed by default. It seems lot of devices with Broadcom chipsets have this problem in linux. On Mint 14, I tried mintwifi , but that did not work as expected. I had the option to connect to internet ...
When adobe stopped support for its flash player in linux, it was not just bad news, it was a terrible news as the version then had some serious bugs. One of the common one being the people in the youtube or flash videos appearing in blue color. The blue tint was making everyone in the ...
Well, its no surprise after Ubuntu 12.04 came out, many wanted the old gnome2 like interface back. Some would have tried the gnome classic option in 12.04, or some like me would have tried installing mate – the original fork of gnome2 project. Chances are there with multiple WMs running, your Mate will have problems ...
When you attach the tata photon+ dongle, you might notice that this was identified as a mass storage device instead of a usb modem. Well, the reason for this is explained in this blog post here. Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first ...
On Ubuntu you may have noticed that when running Picasa in fullscreen mode and returning you would notice the titlebar will be missing on the picasa. Normally this can be fixed after closing and re-opening picasa again. But there’s a simple fix for that, Simply Unmaximize picasa. This can be done by right clicking on ...