after an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy I had a strange error when using sudo: dpkg: warning: ‘ldconfig’ not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: warning: ‘start-stop-daemon’ not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable. Note: root’s PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin […]
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I recently deleted the folder “Favoriten” in the home directory of my Windows 7. This broke the explorer feature as the folder was not recreated. To do this simply open a command prompt (cmd) cd to your home directory and use the following statements to recreate the folder and restore the explorer functionality: mkdir Favorites
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If you want to set the actual timestamp to a field in HQL just use current_timestamp() instead of setting it in your code via a param.
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to change the label on the checkout button from “Bestellung abschließen” to “Zahlungspflichtig bestellen” you just have to change the file app/locale/de_DE/Mage_Checkout.csv
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I needed the Oracle SQLPlus client. Here are the steps to get it running: Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/index.html. There you find a link named Database Instant Client. Follow that link and choose x86 or x86-64. Download the following 3 packages: basic, sqlplus, devel. The install these packages with alien: sudo alien -i oracle-*sqlplus*.rpm sudo alien -i
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If you have a file with dos format, simply open it with vim and type :e ++ff=unix to get it as unix file format. Supported file formats are: unix LF only dos CRLF mac CR only CR is carriage return (Ctrl-M, ^M or hex 0D). LF is linefeed (Ctrl-J, ^J or hex 0A)
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I recently tried to install oracle under ubuntu. I added a new user and could not start any x-windows as this new user. “xhost +” was the solution. oracle@orabox:/home/oracle/database$ xclock No protocol specified Error: Can’t open display: :0.0 root@orabox:/home/oracle/database# xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host root@orabox:/home/oracle/database# su oracle oracle@orabox:/home/oracle/database$ xclock
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I had the problem that starting my jboss application server was veeeeery slow – don’t know how long it would have taken as I always killed it after a few minutes. After some experiments with more memory without a change I removed all my breakpoints in the debug view of eclipse and voilá – it
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Magento creates lots of files and database entries no one really needs. So here is how I tried to clean up the mess – based on this script from the magento site http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/227/maintenance_script First I logged in into the shell and executed the following in the magento directory: rm -rf var/cache/* var/log/* var/report/* var/session/* var/tmp/*
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To mount an nfs filesystem under fedora 17 I had to take the following steps: sudo yum install nfs-utils sudo service rpcbind start sudo mount -o hard,intr,noatime 192.168.1.123:/nfs /mnt/nas The first step installs the needed libraries to be able to mount nfs. This is like nfs-common under debian based distris. The second step eliminates the
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