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Of-late my laptop has been highly responsive .... as responsive as a sloth can be... :P I mean you wouldn't be expecting an Intel i5 Processor with 4GB Ram and 500GB hard disk making you go for a coffee break every time you had to build or compile your code. I am sure many of you must have experienced some form of lag with your Ubuntu...
There might come up a case where you need to install same kind of OS and other Softwares( which are required for daily use) on multiple systems. One of the ways to do it is follow the same procedure on each of the machines, which is obviously a pain. Here's a easy way to do it by using Clonezilla. Now with clonezilla you will have...
Clonezilla is a software that allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. To install Clonezilla we would need following Softwares, all of which are available freely. 7zip ( p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_i386.deb) Tuxboot (tuxboot-linux-8 ) Clonezilla (clonezilla-live-1.2.6-40-i686.iso) Here are the steps to install...
I have been working on Linux for almost 3 years now and have grown to love it a lot. As with every linux user, the .bashrc file becomes cumbersome and difficult to maintain over a period of time, since there are a lot of project specific aliases, paths, etc So after working on a couple of projects, I started maintaining separate...
We were having a crisis on our project the other day. The VPS on which we were running our application had some issues with kernel and Tomcat, for that matter, any java process was running unpredictably. Tomcat would explode the WAR file once in a while and even if it did, it would just pause at "Deploying app.war" forever. After spending...
This post is just to talk about Screen Sessions in Linux (esp. ubuntu) using command "byobu". What is Byobu? Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens. As an open source project, Byobu is an elegant enhancement of plain GNU Screen. Where can it be used? You SSH to some remote machine and Run some...
(Xdotool is a tool that simulates user key movements.) Usually when we start to work , we usually require some apps to be running. In my case I have to run a grails app, sql , subversion and IDE in different tabs of same terminal. Normally it would take almost 1-2 minutes if I do it manually.So I created a shell script using...
On one of our projects, we had to store the MySql Data at a location different from the default location. This was needed because the server was on an instance-store Amazon instance which meant that the data would get lost if the instance had to be rebooted for some reason. After going through the tutorials and articles on AWS, we came...
I have a big fan of Selenium and have been using Selenium for quite some time for testing of web-applications. Recently, I upgraded my machine to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the next day, I found that all the selenium tests started failling on my machine. On digging through the logs, I found the following information in the Selenium Server...
There are certain sites and applications which work only with Internet Explorer. One such application that I am currently working on is EMC Documentum Webtop. After getting fed-up of the warning message thrown by Webtop about unsupported browser and some weird behavior sometimes, I finally decided to install IE on my Ubuntu machine. ...
If you are running Feisty Fawn on AMD 64 machine and try to open a VMWare image, you will most-likely get this error message "Error while powering on: Failed to connect to peer process." The solution to this problem is to install the following the 32-bit libraries required by Ubuntu to recognize the 32-bit operating system. Use...
Installable software for Linux is mainly packaged as .rpm (for RedHat) & .deb (for Ubuntu & other debian based distributions). There can be cases when you want to install some application on your Ubuntu system & the same application might only be available as .rpm. Recently, I was in a similar situation when I had to...
