See this forum posting for a potential fix, if your using an ATI graphics card: http://forum.lazy8studios.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=h1d37r13a2d2ccnk5c5j6b2c94&topic=475.msg837#msg837 This is a fix for the bug where Cogs launches with the following output: Shader compile log for data/effects/TextureBumpCubemap.fsh: Fragment shader failed to compile with the following errors: ERROR: 0:41: error(#132) Syntax error: ‘smooth’ parse error ERROR: error(#273) 1 [...]

If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable). Download the RPM package and convert to a DEB package using alien Download the ZIP file titled “Oracle SQL Developer [...]

Great tool for converting KDE3 settings to KDE4 on Debian. Also, it’s works well to merge KDE4 settings from .kde4 with KDE3 settings in .kde. This is useful as KDE4 1st used .kde4 to save personal KDE configuration data. KDE4 is now using .kde for config data, which mean early KDE4 users will have problems [...]

I have a Red Hat 9 server that I have to support for a wee while longer. I needed to install some packages and I didn’t have the original install CD’s nor access to Red Hat’s repositories. After lot’s and lot’s of searching I found the ISO images at: ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/ But, there’s too many users [...]

This is quick’n’dirty writeup to help others who might have the same problem. I’ll clean this up later in the week … Ubuntu Jaunty is the new beta version of Ubuntu. It comes with a new version of X.Org and the ATI drivers have been incompatible with this version of X.Org. ATI recently released drivers [...]

I was in the process of figuring out and documenting the process of  compiling and installing an Xen enabled kernel on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. This was for a specific project that’s not going to come to fruition. I’m not going to bother as I also don’t feel like having my laptop burn a gaping hole [...]

I won’t be able to make it, but if your interested in Linux and are in or around Boston/Cambridge, the BLU is having one of their installfests: Boston Linux Installfest XXXII When: Saturday February 28, 2009, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 2 Amherst St, Cambridge Plenty of [...]

If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5

To enable mod_perl with Apache2 on Debian & Ubuntu for all directories served up by Apache2, including user directories such as ~/public_html, add the following lines to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default # enable mod_perl     <Files ~ “\.(pl|cgi)$”>            SetHandler perl-script            PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry            Options +ExecCGI            PerlSendHeader On     </Files> In a real production environment you [...]

I recently got an Lenovo T400 and this thing works great with the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid). To install Ubuntu, you have to make sure you edit the BIOS settings and change the graphics to use one of the 2 build in graphics cards. If you want to save the Vista bootloader and access [...]