When trying to compile some java code on my x86_64 (amd64) 64bit Gentoo machine I was greeted with the following error message:
* javac is not available for sun-jre-bin-1.6 on x86_64
* IMPORTANT: some Java tools are not available on some VMs on some architectures
This can be fixed by installing and/or setting the jdk to system as [...]
A cool article about a lesser known Linux command, ionice, it’s like nice but for disk usage.
http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/why-arent-you-using-ionice-yet/
While writing a script to help ease maintenance of my Gentoo installation (i.e. the portage tree) I came across the following error when trying to redirect the standard output of stopping/starting the rsync deamon
/etc/init.d/rsyncd stop > /dev/null
..stopping rsyncd..
* ERROR: wrong args ( > )
The line in the script was:
$SUDO /etc/init.d/rsyncd stop $QUIET_REDIRECT
where $QUIET_REDIRECT=”> [...]
If you get this if you are using xubuntu or ubuntu then go to the section where you change your default application and change the terminal to konsole or some other gui terminal such as xterm. I think this is caused by the xfce terminal not being able to cope with 24-bit colour or something.
Update [...]
IEs4Linux Internet Explorers for Linux, versions 5-7(in the Beta). Very useful for checking website designs with IE in Linux!