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Work faster and be more productive on Linux with Compiz and Gnome-do

I’ve been using gnome for a long time. Lately the interface started to work on my nerves, this is mainly because of the gnome-panels functionality with running programs.

Let me explain….

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Debian: No ipv4 connection within Java applications

Recently there is a very annoying setting within debian squeeze. It causes many java applications to not function anymore on ipv4. Basically this means a lot of programs like Eclipse and Netbeans won’t function at all when requiring a connection.

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Debian: Change default browser and Java version

If you’re a firefox, chrome or opera user, the first thing you’ll probably want to do when installed debian is installing your favorite browser and change the systems default.

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PHP and replacing Euro signs

Within PHP it can be bit of a pain when you want to replace euro signs that come from a database query.

This problem mostly has to do with different encodes of text. More >

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OSX and Linux NFS shares

At work we had this odd problem of OSX (Leopard) clients disconnecting from our NFS file shares. The problem occurred when the clients opened the index of their mounted location. At this point the whole finder (OSX file browser) disconnected and reported “Connection interrupted”. However, the users were able to open child folders directly (e.g. /mount/folder/) which eventually made their work little bit possible, but usually within minutes they got disconnected again while doing copy jobs and such.

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