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Installing LedgerSMB 1.2.18-1 on Ubuntu 9.04
This post is a step by step guide to installing LedgerSMB 1.2.18-1 on Ubuntu 9.04. Download ledgersmb_1.2.18-1_all.deb # Install postgresql sudo apt-get install postgresql # Install the PDF / PS utilities sudo apt-get install texlive # Install Perl Dependencies sudo...
Installing VMWare tools on a Ubuntu 8.10 Guest
I logged into my Ubuntu VMWare Guest and found the time had drifted by about 15 minutes... I have seen all sorts of conjecture as to why you should / shouldn't run ntpd to keep your vm time in-sync. So I thought I would install vmware-tools... which does it for you....
I.T. – You Learn, You Spend
The last few months have been crazy as far as learning new technologies. First it was the SOAP interface to our ERP at work. Enter XML, XSLT and the associated tools to process the stuff. I Googled till I was blue in the face and found enough online to figure it out....
WP-Highslide Plugin XHTML gotcha
I have the WP-Highslide plugin installed. When I attempt to validate my highslide enabled pages over at http://validator.w3.org/ I get: Line 231, Column 62: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "button", "map", "object", "ins", "del",...
Ubuntu 9.04 – jaunty released
I have been running a release candidate version of Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop for a few months now, and it has given me confidence that the latest version of Ubuntu will be good to install on the desktop. Several of the nagging annoyances that caused me to bypass Ubuntu...
Using find & xargs to create an empty index.html file in every directory
If you have global indexing turned on for Apache: Options Indexes You may wish to leave it enabled but still stop indexes being displayed. Using find and xargs you can create an empty index.html in each directory and Apache will serve it instead of the list of files...