Setup Tomcat7 as Server in Eclipse Luna under Ubuntu Linux 1

Setup Tomcat7 as Server in Eclipse Luna under Ubuntu Linux
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 ...

Linux USB boot disk error: Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32 50

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 ...

Shell : Remove blank spaces from filenames 1

Just like I last posted the below script can be used to remove blank spaces from file names. #!/bin/sh find . -name "* *"|while read file do target=`echo "$file"|tr -s ' ' '_'` mv "$file" "$target" done

Shell script: Rename extensions of multiple files. 1

Shell provides easy way of renaming multiple files. Eg: your directory has ’01 – Song1.mp3′, ’02 – Song2.mp3′, ’03 – Song3.mp3′ and you want to rename them to .txt. use the following commane. $rename mp3 txt *.mp3 The above command renames .mp3 files to .txt. An alternate script solution from here #!/bin/sh ls *.mp3|while read ...

Flex builder on Linux kept on Hold?

This post has reported that the flex builder work on linux has been put on hold.  Noted Adobe techie has said “there is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development” Well, that’s not a great news to hear.. considering the open sourced SDK of adobe flex,  good amount of interest was generated ...

Watch web Flash Videos (FLVs) offline.

With most websites you surf these days have some type of video content embedded in them. Be it news sports or entertainment sites. And 9 out of 10 times they are Macromedia Flash Videos (flv). If they are youtube links, there’s a good chance you can download them for future viewing. Otherwise its difficult to ...

Juploadr: Flickr upload tool for Linux and Mac!

Though i had found this tool long time back, it came about pretty handy while using it recently. Get it from jUploadr Just untar the package and run jupload from the installation folder. This launches a simple UI which allows you to drag and drop photos to it. Just add a flickr account and authorize ...

Remote Login to Linux from Windows (Non-VNC) 6

Remote Login to Linux from Windows (Non-VNC)
We can actually login to a *nix based system running X server remotely from Windows XP/Vista based machines. Although there are other ways to achieve remote login using Putty for a SSH login and file transfer over SSH using WinSCP. This particular method allows you to access the entire desktop as a independent session unlike ...

Download videos from youtube.com 3

Update: On Ubuntu a better approach to download youtube videos from command line is using clive. It has options to download the best available format for the video using the -f option. Also a to download videos directly from the youtube.com homepage a firefox extension provides a “Save As” option just below the playing video. ...

Setting up a SVN 1.4 server using Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 15

To setup svn 1.4 , we need to compile both apache 2.2 and svn 1.4 from source. This how to has been tested under Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy. sudo apt-get install build-essential libneon25-dev autoconf libtool -y --force-yes Before starting make sure you have removed previous apache2 and subversion installation from your system. To do this: ...