'Tips n' Tricks' Category
-
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and ies4linux – Installation
December 30, 2009Installing ies4linux on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala by just running “./ies4linux” might show some warnings such as:
IEs4Linux 2 is developed to be used with recent Wine versions (0.9.x). It seems that you are using an old version. It’s recommended that you update your wine to the latest version (Go to: winehq.com).
In my case it showed [...] -
Google AppEngine – Python – issubclass() arg 1 must be a class
September 14, 2009If you are getting the error “”issubclass() arg 1 must be a class”” with Google App Engine SDK for Python on Linux its probably because you are running Python 2.6 (and will probably happen to you when you run Ubuntu 9.04 – 2.6 is the default there).
Just run the dev server under python 2.5 (i.e. [...] -
Error: “Operation could not be completed (error 0×000006d1)” when adding a Samba based network printer to Vista
January 20, 2009If you are getting the following error while adding a Samba based network printer to Vista:
Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0×000006d1).
And you have a Samba server (version 3.0 and above) consider using the following technique to add the printer:Add a local printer (not a network one!)
Select “create a [...] -
“Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book” on Pidgin on Ubuntu / Debian?
January 12, 2009Today I got the following error on Pidgin (I’m running version 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) while it tried to connect to MSN:
“Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book”
After searching a bit I found this post by Gijs Nelissen which said to use a different MSN plugin for Pidgin called msn-pecan.
I’ll reiterate the instructions for [...] -
Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic Unable to copy the user’s Xauthorisation file
April 27, 2008If you get the following error while running Synaptic:
Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic
Unable to copy the user’s Xauthorisation file.
Make sure to that you have enough space in your /tmp directory.
To check if that is indeed the problem run the following command in your terminal:
df -h
This command will show you each mounted volumes you may have including [...] -
VmWare Server 1.0.4 on Ubuntu Server 7.04 (a.k.a Feisty Fawn)
September 20, 20072 days after my previous post about installing VmWare Server 1.0.3 from Canonical’s repository, VmWare released version 1.0.4.
I tried using its built-in install script on a vanilla Ubuntu Server 7.04 (a.k.a Feisty Fawn) and it worked flawlessly.
Aside from certain libraries which it needs to compile the vmmon and vmnet kernel modules (the installation script will [...] -
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04), VmWare Server and Authentication problems
September 16, 2007If you are going to install VmWare server (a great and free server virtualization product from VmWare) on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) and you’ve followed this post showing how to do it using Canonical’s commercial repository, make sure to read this post at the Ubuntu Community Docs.
Basically, if you encounter authentication problems at the Server’s [...] -
Nokia E61 Change Language Keys Combination
May 17, 2007I own a Nokia E61 phone which I’m very happy with (leave aside the PC Suite backup problem my wife had when she upgraded to an E61 as well).
Even though I’m an Israeli I use its English interface because it’s less buggy and because most of the things I do with the phone (Emails and [...] -
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
March 5, 2007I got the following annoying little error after I tried to upgrade to a newer mod_python on my Gentoo Linux box:
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
It seems that the main problem was due to the fact that I’ve switched to GCC 4.1.1 and when compiling mod_python, the compilation uses libtool that is brought and [...] -
Migrating from Blogger Beta (or the new version of Blogger) to WordPress
January 6, 2007When I started to think about migrating from Blogger to my own WordPress blog running on my own server I started to look at migration options.
It seems that since I already migrated to the new blogger system (which is out of beta now), the current import options from Blogger available in the latest WordPress installation [...]
