Test your Web Application’s Performance


Picture:Clock Published on April 23rd, 2007 in Web, jMeter

Is it just me, or is like everyone these days developing some kind of web application on the side? Web applications really have arrived and are rapidly becoming even more popular than traditional desktop applications. There are numerous reasons why that’s the case:

No installation on client’s architecture needed (no maintenance on the client-side!)
Your application is [...]

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How to install any package in Ubuntu


Picture:Clock Published on April 23rd, 2007 in Ubuntu

standard packages found in the repository (you can also use apt-get for this):
sudo aptitude search ABC (apt-cache search ABC)
sudo aptitude install ABC (sudo apt-get install ABC)
sudo aptitude remove ABC (sudo apt-get remove ABC)
.deb (watch out for unresolved dependencies!)
sudo dpkg -i ABC.deb
.rpm (use .deb packages preferably though)
sudo alien -i *.rpm
.tar.gz (requires sudo aptitude install checkinstall)
tar xzvf [...]

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Cleaning up your Ubuntu Installation


Picture:Clock Published on April 22nd, 2007 in Ubuntu

After upgrading my Ubuntu 6.10 installation to the newest 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) over a thousand packages were upgraded. So it’s obvious that there were left some dependencies which are not needed anymore. Sure everything still works, but I like to clean up things on Operating Systems I use productively. That’s why I wrote a script [...]

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How to get VMWare to work under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn


Picture:Clock Published on April 21st, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu

As many other ubuntu users I quickly upgraded my boxes to Ubuntu Feisty. But I soon realized, that VMWare did not work anymore, even though I tried to recompile its modules for the new kernel that came with feisty. After surfing the web and trying multiple solutions, I came up with this one, which seems [...]

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KDevelop won’t compile project


Picture:Clock Published on April 18th, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu

KDevelop is a nice C++ IDE on Linux. As I installed it on my new Ubuntu box and wanted to run it, everything seemed fine, until I tried to compile a project.
If the following error message appears while trying to compile a KDevelop project:
make: aclocal: Command not found
make: *** [all] Error 127
*** Exited with status: [...]

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Freelancing Job Sites


Picture:Clock Published on April 18th, 2007 in Other

Freelanceswitch.com has posted what has to be the biggest list of Freelancing Job Sites to date. So if you’re looking for a job or need someone to work on a job, take a look at it here.

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Unable to configure VMWare on Ubuntu


Picture:Clock Published on April 13th, 2007 in Linux, Other, Ubuntu

While trying to install and configure VMWare Workstation on my new Ubuntu Desktop, i received the following error message:
“None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler [...]

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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn


Picture:Clock Published on April 11th, 2007 in Ubuntu

Since I have completely switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu, (I was no longer able to mess around with my Gentoo installation, Ubuntu is just so much more stable right out of the box), I am eager to get my hands on the final release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). Ubuntu gets user-friendlier and more stable [...]

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Looking for Sponsors


Picture:Clock Published on April 10th, 2007 in General

Due to increasing hosting costs, I’m looking for a few sponsors willing to place a text link onto this blog. Your text link will appear on the sidebar of every post above Google’s Ads, so it really is the best spot to place an advertisement. Yet another Tech Blog is a PR4 site and has [...]

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