the empty quarter

Here’s how to install Apache Tomcat version 5.5 on an Ubuntu machine (note that there is nothing Ubutu specific in these steps). This will form one of the foundation steps for a series of posts in which we will build a fully open-source business intelligence platform. First, install Java JDK. I am using Sun’s version […]

Here’s a tip to save typing the mount command each time you start DOSBox. Simply create a file called .dosboxrc in your home directory and save it with the following content: [autoexec] MOUNT C ~/OldApps c: Where ~/OldApps is the directory with MS-DOS executables. Here’s a how-to with more information about DOSBox under Linux.

For a long time the only way to access and use a Hotmail account from Thunderbird was the WebMail extension. All in all, this is a great solution but it always seemed a bit of a workaround since in the background it “pretends” to be a browser, downloads the Hotmail HTML and parses it to […]

Here’s how to create simple uniform table borders in BIRT. This seems very obvious once you know how to do it, but messing around again and again with cell and row borders without getting the right result can be very frustrating! Hover over the table to get the “Table” handle in the bottom left corner. […]

Nautilus and Thunar sometimes refuse to mount NTFS disk (e.g. a USB hard drive) when it was previously not unmounted cleanly from Windows. It is still possible to mount it from terminal shell by using the following command: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/sdc1 /media/myntfsdisk Where /dev/sdc1 is the device you want to mount […]

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