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Sunday, 10 April 2011
Another Emacs TRAMP problem, another solution
The problemThis is documented for posterity because it’s not the first time this has happend to me. The symptom of this problem happened to me when trying to access a remote system, any remote system, through a method like ssh or sftp.
Whenever I tried to access a remote system, I would get an error from TRAMP saying that it can’t find a working /bin/ls, despite the file being obviously in its right place.
The precise error message is the following:
Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `vattu'
Omitting...
(Nothing to omit)
File error: Couldn't find a proper `ls' command
tramp-get-ls-command: Couldn't find a proper `ls' command
Once you find out that /bin/ls is actually there, there is little left to do but try to see what is wrong with TRAMP. TRAMP is a fickle library and getting it...
Using a POSIX directory schema with Nuxeo
Nuxeo patchNuxeo doesn’t support RFC 2307 POSIX LDAP schemas out of the box. Even if the configuration options for LDAP directories in Nuxeo are extremely flexible, a small patch is required for POSIX group to work. The patch makes Nuxeo search for group members using an ID instead of a DN (DistinguishedName). The last version of the patch is available in the Nuxeo JIRA bug tracker as bug 6430. The patch requires very limited change to the LDAP directory configuration.
For your convenience, I have provided a pre-compiled binary .jar including the patch. This will work on Nuxeo 5.4.0.1 and probably Nuxeo 5.4.0 but it may already be outdated as you read this article. In the download links below, you will also find the integral version of some relevant configuration files. I...
A Wizard to FAIL
I’m doing one of my daily system upgrade when I got to this pair of wizard dialog. This happens when I’m trying to upgrade the flashplugin-installer package.
This gives you no choices but to click Forward to move to the next screen. Hoping for a way out, here is where you end up.
Note that there is no way to close the window. This window will need to be killed. This is unfortunate because while I know how to get out of this, a ordinary user would not. Even if it turns out I have accidentally got myself in this situation by unknowingly clicking the incorrect option (I don’t...
A New Powerful Rocket Can Send Man to The Moon or Mars
The California based company SpaceX announced their plan to build a rocket more powerful than any rocket that has ever been built so far to this day. The huge rocket will be called Falcon Heavy which is an upgrade to the Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX plans to upgrade its Falcon 9 rockets with twin strap-on boosters and other systems to make them capable of launching larger payloads into space. With this increase in power, SpaceX feels this rocket can travel beyond low-Earth range and possibly travel into our solar system using less capability then most rockers built today. The Falcon Heavy rocket will also be powerful enough to bring...
I’m Having A Party. Here’s $50. Bring Cool People — Or You Owe Me $100.
Think about the best parties you’ve ever been to. They’re probably not thrown by some random promoter that you found via a flyer on the street. They’re probably thrown by your friends, or a friend of a friend. And they probably came together organically. Or at least more organically than a party you pay for.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week following the news that Google is tying all employee bonuses this year to their social strategy. At first I thought this was a joke. It is not. They dance around the word “social” in the wording in the memo, but make no mistake: that’s exactly what this is all about.
“[Your bonus] can range from 0.75 to 1.25 depending on how well we perform against our strategy to integrate relationships,...
I Won’t Use Flickr Until They Release My Photo Hostages
Freemium business models are always hard. You have to give users enough for free that they try your service out and get hooked. Then you hit them with fees for upgraded features that make it even better. With a perfect product people don’t mind paying because they feel like it’s good value.
Flickr is a freemium service. But they have more of a hostage taking business model. It may make people cough up the money, but they sure aren’t happy about it. I, for one, have been staring them down for years now. It’s not a fight I think I’ll win, but it’s one that I’m willing to whine loudly about.
On the surface Flickr’s pro service, currently $25/year, seems fair. The free service lets you upload a certain amount of photos, up to a certain...
Kno Bails On Hardware, Takes Another $30 Million. Is An Android App Next?
Kno Bails On Hardware, Takes Another $30 Million. Is An Android App Next?
Take a good look at the Kno textbook tablet at left because you might not ever see it again. Kno is getting out of the hardware business and, as reported earlier, taking another $30 million from Intel Capital, Advance Publications (owner of Conde Nast), and its previous investors (Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, First Round, and SV Angel). The company is now confirming the reports. CEO Osman Rashid puts it to me this way: “We have accelerated our 2012 strategy to 2011. Our long-term plan was always to support multiple platforms.”
Kno started selling its textbook tablets last year, with a $599 single-screen version and an $899 dual-screen. But, as I’ve...
Software Application Development VS Web Application Development
Internet has slowly taking over as something important if not part of our life. Most of us need the internet connection for majority part of our life, be it for studying purposes, doing researches, work related stuff and some of us have even venture into ecommerce as well as shopping just in front of the computer monitor screen. The Internet has made our life so easy that businesses started to mushroom without the need of much capital unlike traditional businesses. What is more important, side business like web site hosting andsoftware developmenthouse are also mushrooming out of nowhere.
Software development is no longer like previously whereby most of the software development is done offline and the applications...
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