Post archive for ‘linux’
February Screenshot
Here you have a screenshot of my desktop, I hope you liked:
Tagged as conky, gnome, linux, screenshot+ Categorized as computer/eyecandy, computer/linux, other/uncategorized
PHP MSSQL 2005 Problem - Solved
Trying to make a connection to a MS SQL Server 2005 database from PHP, I always got an error message using the mssql_connect saying:
Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: {servername}.
I tried several solutions like, updating the ntwdblib.dll (on windows; I had the same error on linux) library, configuring the tcp/ip properties on sqlexpress [...]
Tagged as 2005, database, php, programming, sql+ Categorized as computer/linux, computer/programming, other/uncategorized
Transfer DVD to iPod Classic
After several attempts to transfer some of my concert dvds to my ipod, finally got them working, here is how:
I first update the ffmpeg packages from medibuntu, after this install dvd::rip package from multiverse, once I had dvd::rip opened a new project, and select the option to “Encode DVD on the fly” in order to [...]
Categorized as music/ipod, computer/linux
OpenSuse 10.3
This post is not a review of openSuse 10.3.
I downloaded the DVD for my AMD64 bits computer and it is one of the most buggy installation I’ve tried in the Linux world, I were not able to install it on my computer, all the times I tried it always get stuck installing the grub package, [...]
Categorized as computer/linux
AWN
Today installed the avant-window-navigatior patched with the reflection code, it works like a charm, it is a very nice utility to complement my Compiz Fusion installation, here you have a screenshot:
Categorized as computer/eyecandy, computer/linux
Eclipse
I’m trying to setup my development platform for PHP on Linux, I chose eclipse PDT, to complete this task with PDT version 1.0 need to download and install eclipse 3.3 RC1, to make it work per the module requirements, after a download of 250 mb approximately, it didn’t work.
I’m trying to install the old PHPEclipse [...]
Categorized as computer/linux, computer/programming