DansGuardian Configure Error Fix - configure: error: pcre-config not found!

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

February 15th, 2006 Overview A Java class to shutdown Apache James Mail Server via TCP/IP. It shuts down Apache James Mail Server by passing shutdown command via simulated telnet session.

July 6th, 2006 I was writing a xml data reader in Java using JDK's inbuilt XML processing libraries (JAXP) when I persistently hit across this annoying exception with error message: A pseudo attribute name is expected. The error is displayed on the first line itself.

November 16th, 2007 When you try MySQL master-master replication with two (or more) servers you may often find that in the process of configuring the original master to also act as a slave server (start slave), it fails with the following error: mysql> start slave; ERROR 1200 (HY000): The server is not configured as slave; fix in config file or with CHANGE MASTER TO To rectify it locate and delete the master.info file and restart the mysql server. Now try to start slave and it should work.

June 24th, 2008 GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime.

August 19th, 2008 In earlier versions of Db4o we used Db4o.configure() to configure all Db4o database globally (across all ObjectContainer). However in 7.2 (and above) versions of Db4o Db4o.configure() has been deprecated and it is suggested to use Db4o.newConfiguration() instead.

November 9th, 2005 I was in Drudge report when I saw an advertisement spot occupied by advertisement giant TribalFusion filled with Apache error message instead. The error message was rather interesting.

July 15th, 2007 Firefox has the annoying habit of popping up an error message after 5 seconds (10 seconds for Firefox 2.x) when running Javascript code. This causes lots of irritation because a) some script genuinely need more than the default time, b) the error message pops up repeatedly after every 5-10 seconds thereby severely ruining your browsing experience and c) the strangely worded warning where Cancel is what allows you to continue responds very sluggishly and looks like hanging even on my Core 2 Duo machine.

March 22nd, 2008 Have you seen the error while installing a package using yum / yumex? Error: vlc conflicts with faad2 >= 2.5 Error: Missing Dependency: faad2 < 2.5 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs The error is because of using freshrpms repository or other repository to install recent version of faad2. Now let's see how you can solve it.

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

April 10th, 2007 XMemo is an alternative to IPMsg (for Windows only) and claims to interoperate with IPMSg protocol. In short a quick messaging tool for intranet use.

August 4th, 2008 You may see the following error in Fedora 8 while starting / restarting the network (service network restart): FATAL: Module off not found. Let's see how we can fix this.

April 21st, 2009 Windows Vista creates problems and comes out with failures every ten minute you use. Anything above normal and you can expect Windows Explorer in Vista to hang up invariably.

August 10th, 2006 Everytime I tried to upload a file to my PmWiki (popular PHP based Wiki) installation, it failed with "no file uploaded" error. Also it asks me for password thrice, once before accessing the upload page and twice after uploading.

April 17th, 2006 I found a super-simple way to block access to external email providers like GMail or HotMail or Yahoo Mail in firewall. The process while trivial to configure has a caveat.