I just noticed the abnormality with Pidgin 2.5.5 (running on Debian) these few days — I couldn’t connect my Yahoo messenger account at all. According to the discussion of Bug #389278 it appears that Yahoo was trying to change its protocol. A quick way to have Pidgin connecting to Yahoo messenger server again is to change the Pager server setting for the Yahoo account in Pidgin. To do this, from Pidgin:...
I tried to install JSON for Ruby via RubyGem, # gem install json and I got the following error message: Building native extensions. This could take a while...<br /> ERROR: Error installing json:<br /> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. <br /> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install json<br /> extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)<br /> from extconf.rb:1<br /> <br /> Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1....
Everytime I start apache2 (# apache2ctl start) this message is dispalyed: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName Well, the site is still running despite the above notification. To fix it, we need to edit the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf or /etc/apache2.conf and add the following line: ServerName nameofserver Now, restart the apache server (# apache2ctrl restart) and should no loger see the previous message.
You need to have root access to do that. So the first step to become root with the following command: ken@debian:~$ su<br /> Password:<br /> debian:/home/ken# visudo<br /> Now you can add a username to the list. For example: <br /> ken ALL=(ALL) ALL<br /> Save the file to complete the process. Credit: Ubuntu Forum
Eterm doesn’t display the fancy “ or ” on my Debian. It is not a big problem, but it’s very annoying when it doesn’t properly display these symbols used in some programs such as aptitude. I wanted to fix it, but didn’t realize it there was a fix. After two years or using it, I tried to find the solution again, and I found it. Just add the this code to the ....