Fixing - configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

April 5th, 2008 On running ./configure in dansguardian (web content filter for Linux), I got the following error - configure: error: pcre-config not found!configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_prog_PCRE contains a newline.. The solution, as usual, is simple: Install pcre-devel.

June 22nd, 2007 Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called "free" (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this "free" JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too.

July 18th, 2005 The fundamental questions There are two questions that you need to ask when compiling your program: 1. What do I know about the platforms that this program will run on? 2.

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

March 26th, 2009 This small trick will tell you how you can compile a java source file from another java file on the go. You do not need to run it on a different page and compile it there and then get back to this program.

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.

February 3rd, 2005 Target Audience Java/JSP developers on Tomcat and Application Server administrators. Problem Tomcat 5.5 (unlike Tomcat 5.0 and versions below) comes with Eclipse JDT compiler enabled by default for JSP compilation.

June 13th, 2008 Sun is offering three free assessment tests for Solaris 10 operating system focusing on Unix Essential and System Administration. They are for the following certifications: UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 Operating System Objectives: Use command-line features and help resources Manage and view files and directories and change the directory contents Create and modify files and use basic file permissions Create ACLs Control the user work environment Use commands within the shell Perform basic process and job control Archive files and create archives Compress, view, and uncompress files Perform remote file transfers Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 1) Objectives: Manage file systems Install software Perform system boot procedures Perform user and security administration Manage network printers and system processes Perform system backups and restores Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 2) Objectives: Describe network basics and the client-server model Describe remote administration with the Solaris Management Console Manage swap configuration Manage crash dumps and core files Configure NFS and AutoFS Describe RAID and Solaris Volume Manager software concepts Configure Solaris Volume Manager software Configure RBAC Configure system messaging Configure naming service clients Configure NIS Configure a custom JumpStart software installation Perform a Flash installation Take the tests and find out how strong you are in Solaris.

September 14th, 2005 Indian cricket is again hounded by match fixing allegations. At least three cricketers(one batsman and two bowlers) are under the scanner according to The Times of India.

March 22nd, 2008 PHP files are scripts which are interpreted by php interpreter (php.exe in windows). Converting them to exe files makes it easy to distribute PHP applications to Windows users.

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.

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.

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

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.

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.