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This post explains the steps to install Ubuntu under Windows with the Wubi installer. It then continues to outline the steps to move the Ubuntu install with LVPM to its own partition and make it the primary OS. Next it explains how to replace the Ubuntu install with another Ubuntu install. Finally it explains how to make the original Windows OS run virtually within/under the Ubuntu OS with VMWare and VirtualBox. Installing Ubuntu in Windows with Wubi - Cleanup, compress, remove unnecessary cruft, and empty the trash from existing windows install - Backup existing windows install with something like Acronis - Download Wubi Ubuntu installer and install Ubuntu in a file within the existing windows partition Note: Now Ubuntu will be listed in the boot list and you can boot into either OS. Moving Ubuntu to its own partition - Reboot into the Ubuntu live CD and repartition the drive. - Enter the BIOS menu and set the boot order to CD/DVD drive before HDD, i.e., Restart the com...

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Adopting Agile Development Design vs Knowledge Creation: Attacking risk early along with early and continuous integration improves development. Agile attitude: Transparency Forget Burn-down, Use Burn-up charts : graph both total and completed, that way you can see when backlog was added or removed along with iteration velocity. It is then obvious why decreases in remaining occurred - whether due to backlog changes or velocity changes. I would recommend adding annotations with links to notes indicating what changed. What was added/removed to backlog? Were there less team members due to vacations, etc? Were team members shuffled? Agile Anti-patterns

Install procedure: wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/R/eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz tar xzvf eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz

Ubuntu kung fu tips site Ubuntu psychocats tips site text editor features log file descriptions /proc - filesystem window into hardware Setting environment variables, see forum ~/.profile - per-user environment, source reloads in current terminal /etc/environment - simple key=values, no expansion, system wide environment loaded at boot, source reloads in current terminal shell A single dot followed by a file is the same as 'source file' which runs in the same shell not a new shell, i.e., '. .bashrc' sudo gedit /etc/profile - system wide bourn shell environment, only gets read by login shells. For graphical logins you don't get a login shell so it's up to the X session configuration to read /etc/profile. It seems that gdm and kdm are doing this with most Linux distributions, but others may not. gedit ~/.bashrc to edit local environment /etc/bash.bashrc group management List all groups a user belongs to: groups linux cheat-sheet To get list of UUIDs: ls /dev/disk...

Turning of mouse clicks on touchpad fixed the cursor jumping around. System : Preferences : Mouse Touchpad tab Disable mouse clicks with touchpad According to this forum , disconnecting all USB devices for 10 seconds and reconnecting them resets something on the USB bus fixing the randomly stuck keys. This appears to have fixed the problem and I'm not seeing stuck repeating keys anymore. I only had a trackball connected.

Found BLOG entry about slowness with NetBeans and GTK that switching to metal Look an Feel resolved. Saw some console errors about GTK, switched to Metal L&F and errors were no longer reported. jconsole -J-Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel& C:\Progra~1\java\jdk1.6.0_02\bin\jconsole -help Usage: jconsole [ -interval=n ] [ -notile ] [ -pluginpath ] [ -version ] [ connection ... ] -interval Set the update interval to n seconds (default is 4 seconds) -notile Do not tile windows initially (for two or more connections) -pluginpath Specify the path that jconsole uses to look up the plugins -version Print program version connection = pid || host:port || JMX URL (service:jmx: ://...) pid The process id of a target process host A remote host name or IP address port The port number for the remote connection -J Specify the input arguments to the Java virtual machine on which jconsole is running

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Programmatically setting window titles, see forum entry . Using Escape Sequences To Set Gnome Terminal Options 1. Edit the Terminal Profile (Edit - Profiles - Title and Command Tab), change dynamically-set title option to "replaces initial title". 2. Edit a script file or run on the command line and change the PROMPT_COMMAND line to PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;"myWindowTitle"\007"' where (in octal) \033 => 0 => Ps = 0 (use string as a new icon name and title) ; => non-digit character string => "myWindowTitle" \007 => (non-printing character) The escape sequence I've employed is :- ESC ] Ps ND string NP OSC Mode ND can be any non-digit Character (it's discarded) NP can be any non-printing Character (it's discarded) string can be any ASCII printable string (max 511 characters) Ps = 0 -> use string as a new icon name and title Ps = 1 -> use string is a new icon name only Ps = 2 -> use string is a new...

You must set the following when starting JBoss or you will get .ClassNotFoundException when trying to connect JConsole to the JBoss process see forum entry . Edit the JBoss startup script Add to run JConsole without JBoss MBeans JAVA_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $JAVA_OPTS" Add to run JConsole with only JBoss MBeans JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.management.builder.initial=org.jboss.system.server.jmx.MBeanServerBuilderImpl -Djboss.platform.mbeanserver -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $JAVA_OPTS" JBossMBeansInJConsole # Enable the jconsole agent locally JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" # Tell JBossAS to use the platform MBean server JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djboss.platform.mbeanserver" # Make the platform MBean server able to work with JBossAS MBeans JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djavax.management.builder.initial=org.jboss.system.server.jmx.MBeanServerBuilderImpl" Can get JBoss MBeans through Jboss web consoles....

In /etc/hosts, the hostname is not mapped to 127.0.0.1 Needs to be mapped to be mapped to 127.0.0.1 or it won't connect because it thinks it is trying to connect remotely Host file changes: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 troy-laptop # fix for JConsole See blog entry JMX FAQ

Re: sound buttons not working correctly Go into System -> Preferences -> Sound, then select PCM (and PCM only) in the list near the bottom of the page.

The attached link explains how to manually relabel a partition.

Tried various methods, but couldn't get VMware player 2.5 to install and work. Trying this with bundle. I used the following method to get VMware player 2.0.5 installed and it is working flawlessly. sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-generic downloaded VMware-player-2.0.5-109488.i386.tar.gz to /usr/local/bin/vmware-player cd /usr/local/bin/vmware-player tar xf VMware-player-2.0.5-109488.i386.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib/ sudo ./vmware-install.pl

sudo gedit /etc/vmware/config add hostinfo.noTSC = "TRUE" tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

Used: uname -r - to verify kernel version sudo fdisk -l - to check all partitions mount - to see what was mounted more /etc/fstab - to get filesystem and mount points ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh - to get a list of UUIDs Edited /boot/grub/menu.lst per instructions below Got Hibernate/Resume working using: zcat Says: September 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm What I did was three things to get hibernate to work with Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.24.21 ... 1. change platform to shutdown >sudo gedit /usr/lib/pm-utils/functions change from “platform” to “shutdown” 2. whitelist ptyq4 >sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support: # Add modules to this list to have them removed before suspend and reloaded # on resume. An example would be MODULES=”em8300 yenta_socket” # # Note that network cards and USB controllers will automatically be unloaded # unless they’re listed in MODULES_WHITELIST MODULES=”ptyq4″ 3. Changes grub to point to swap on resume >sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst UUID (for your swap ...

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download jvmstat In a terminal, run: gksudo nautilus That will start a root file manager (GNOME) - graphical file browser with root access double click the jvmstat download and uncompress it to /usr/local/bin Copy /usr/local/bin/jvmstat/bin/visualgc to vgc so the command is shorter edit ~/.bashrc add the following two lines: export JVMSTAT_JAVA_HOME='/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun' PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/jvmstat/bin To run visualgc, from a terminal, run jps to get a list of java process ids, then run vgc

It all just worked - including the integrated wifi, bluetooth, sound, mic, and integrated 2 MP web camera. I only had to do manual config to get hibernate/resume working, see details . Bought a new Dell Studio and upon booting Windows Vista for the first time, I discovered Vista is a pig consuming ~1 GB just to boot up. Had already been playing around with Ubuntu for many months and liked it, however, I wasn't sure it would support all my needs. I was wrong. I installed Ubuntu with Wubi. Ubuntu only takes ~350 MB to boot up. I added the Compiz Fusion composite window manager and enable 3D for productivity and the sheer enjoyment of using it. Can't keep my kids off my computer now. I configured the Evolution mail client for my various mail accounts and am quite pleased. Installed Skype, Java 6, Maven, Ant, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, GlassFish, MySQL, Eclipse, and NetBeans so my development environment is mostly good-to-go. With Eclipse, NetBeans, MySQL, FireFox, Evolution, and Skype ...

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Windows sub-paths need to be quoted if they have spaces and the sub-paths should not end with path separators. Either of these issues causes problems for JWSDP-2.0. Correct example: C:\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin" Incorrect examples: Missing quotes around a sub-path which includes spaces C:\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin Sub-path quoted, but incorrectly ends in a file separator C:\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin;"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin \ ";%ANT_HOME%\bin