Archive | April, 2006

Installing Ruby on Rails onto Debian Sarge with Apache 1.3

After quite a bit of resistance on my part I'm afraid that it's time to get down with the kids, hence: Install ruby [code]apt-get install irb1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ruby ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev[/code] Install gems [code] cd ~bealers/build/src wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz cd .. tar zxf src/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz cd rubygems-0.8.11 ruby setup.rb[/code] Install Rails [code]gem install rails --include-dependencies[/code] [...]

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Global search and replace using Vi

to replace all instances of – say – 127.0.0.1 with 10.0.0.1 in a file then using vi you can do: [code]:%s/127.0.0.1/10.0.0.1/g[ dating questions /code] if you mess it up then press u for undo. Of course if it's an important file then back it up first. zp8497586rq

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MySQL Workbench

I just downloaded MySQL workbench 1.06 beta. I stumbled across it after finding this message on the DBDesigner forum page: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that [...]

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Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: [code]apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common [...]

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Firefox web developer toolbar writer wins prize

Chris Pederick the guy behind the awesome Firefox Extension, the Web Developer Toolbar, has won one of the grand prizes in the extend firefox competition. He blogged the win and has subsequently blogged some pictures of his Alienwa^H^H^H^H^HDell PC. Completely unrelated to the prize, here's some pictures of a Firefox branded bus. zp8497586rq

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Clone a VMWare virtual machine

Simple one, you have a windows virtual machine and you want to copy it: Copy the folder the VM is in (assuming you use a folder per virtual machine) and rename it to the new host name Click on the .vmx icon (you can rename this file first so it's new-host-name.vmx) Select “Edit this virtual [...]

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debian start-up script tip

If you've just installed something and want to make sure it starts on boot then the init.d script needs adding to the various run level folders as a symlink. It's a bit of a drag and it can be sometimes forgotten. Never mind, Debian comes buy replica bags online with a handy script: Lets assume [...]

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