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BlueProximity on Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on August 9, 2012 by daniel

I just tried installed BlueProximity on Ubuntu 12.04. Although it works pretty well, there was a pretty funny glitch. The GUI to configure blueproximity only showed up on the first launch. After that the window didn’t show up. It seemed … Continue reading →

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Brasero Disk Burner Gets Stuck Creating Image Checksum

Posted on April 26, 2012 by daniel

When I was trying to burn a new copy of the latest version of Ubuntu, Brasero was getting stuck on the “Creating Image Checksum”. My first thought was to disable the check-sum feature (which you can do via the edit … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 12.04 Released!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by daniel

Woot! Today Ubuntu 12.04 will be available for download. I am quite excited about a number of new features, most significantly HUD (Heads Up Display). This is an innovative system for interacting with menus via the keyboard with search. Not … Continue reading →

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javascript-common & mantis 404 problem on Ubuntu

Posted on April 11, 2012 by daniel

Although my mantis install seemed to be working, I noticed that whenever I loaded the page, I recieved a number of 404 errors on the javascripts. ( 404 – /javascript/min/common.js). What really confused me is that the file was in … Continue reading →

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Netbeans PHPUnit Code Completion

Posted on March 15, 2012 by daniel

By default, Netbeans dosen’t do code completion for PHPUnit classes even though it includes support for PHPUnit. Thankfully, adding in the code completion support is very easy. Simply go to Tools>Options>PHP>General and then click “Add Folder” under the Global Include … Continue reading →

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PHPUnit require_once(PHP/CodeCoverage… Error on Ubuntu

Posted on March 12, 2012 by daniel

When trying to install PHPUnit on Ubuntu 11.10, I received the following error: PHP Warning: require_once(PHP/CodeCoverage/Filter.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/bin/phpunit on line 38 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘PHP/CodeCoverage/Filter.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in … Continue reading →

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Apache /icons directory Index

Posted on March 5, 2012 by daniel

Generally I like to add Options -Indexes to my apache config files. Naturally I was surprised to find that www.mydomain.com/icons/ was returning a standard apache index. I checked my config files and all the files remove the Index options, so … Continue reading →

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Linux test network connection

Posted on January 19, 2012 by daniel

Lately I have begun to suspect on of my servers is losing its network connection under certain circumstances. Naturally I started with basic connectivity test such as ping: However, I also wanted to put it under a little strain so … Continue reading →

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PHP Text Color

Posted on October 28, 2011 by daniel

When writing scripts to sort through large amounts of data, using color to highlight certain output values can be quite useful. If you are outputing to a browser, this is quite easy; you just use html colors (i.e. <span style=”color: … Continue reading →

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Execute a PHP 5 Script From the Command Line in Ubuntu Linux

Posted on September 26, 2011 by donaldvr

To execute a PHP script from the command line in Ubuntu you must have php5-cli installed. (CLI stands for “Command Line Interface”.) sudo apt-get install php5-cli Once cli is installed, you can execute your script like so: php5 ./myScript.php Inside … Continue reading →

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