They finally made it! Adobe just released the Flash Player for Linux.
Now Linux users can deploy apps using the free Adobe Flex® 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and Flex Data Services 2 Express.
All this for free... nothing... nada... niente!
So if you're using Linux, it's a must to go to www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayerlinux and download it now!
Mark Lynch posted how to rip MP3's on Ubuntu.
I've never tested doing this, but will give it a try later
As previously said I was having some kind of troubles with my wireless connection on Ubuntu.
Yesterday I found that the Ubuntu community really works. I was able to get some replies about how to install my wireless using WPA encryption in less than 5 minutes.
Basically Ubuntu only works with WEP encryption, which is crap by the way. When switching my router to work with WEP encryption, I got Ubuntu wireless to work, but Windows XP gone down.
The guys from the Ubuntu community pointed me to a URL that promissed to make Ubuntu work for almos every single wireless card.
Guess what? It does indeed, in less than 5 minutes I managed to have my wireless connection working on WPA.
Now as promissed I'm doing this post from my Ubuntu on wireless connection
After problems with the wifi (which is almost working at the moment), I decided then to install ColdFusion.
I found some good stuff on goggle about this installation, which by the way is pretty straight forward, as you basically press enter in the console instead of pressing next in the interface installation.
The version I installed was CF 7.02 for Linux. After the installation I checked the install logs, and there wasn't anything wrong.
I had Apache 2 installed on my laptop, but decided to try the built in on port 8500, and didn't have any problem until I tried to start the ColdFusion service.
I got and error with a message like this:
"Error: please check cfserver.log"
When checking the logs I found only one message.
"Unknown Id: placona"
So... what the hell is it? Bloody hell it was too good to be true!
I then uninstalled and tried to install it logged as "root", instead of using "sudo" for the installation.
The installation was straight forward again, same configuration, but decided to change the login for CF. this time I used "CFMX" instead of "placona".
At first I thought this might be the problem as I created a login for CF using the same computer's name.
When I tried to start CF again, I got the same error, but this time on the logs I saw:
"Unknown id: CFMX"
I was wrong, this had nothing to do with the machine name, but with the user name I was using for CF.
I then went to Ubuntu user manager and created a user with the exact user name and password as I created for ColdFusion administrator.
When I tried to start CF again...
"ColdFusion is running..."
So here's my tip. Everytime you install CF, create a system user with the same details as provided for the installation.
Following the last post about network problems and dodgy Firewalls. This time I decided to install Ubuntu on my laptop. I have to be honest saying that it was my first time installing something *nix.
This time I received some cd's from Ubuntu.com.
From this CD you can either run Ubuntu as a Live CD (not having to install anything on your machine) or from the Live CD go for an installation. I backed up my whole laptop and decided to give it a try.
The wizards are really intuitive. You have to answer some questions for configuration purposes and then it's time to create a new partition.
I was really scared when I saw the partition screen, as I was completely sure it was gonna destroy my Windows installation. Can you imagine Linux doing something good for your fragile Windows?
I was wrong, it's really neat, and it easily gave me the option to create the partitions manually, so I created one new partition for the root "/" (must have minimum 2GB space) and another one for the swap (minimum 256mb space).
Then clicked next, confirmed the installation and off it went. In 15 minutes I had Ubuntu running like it had been installed for months, as I didn't even had to bother with drivers.
As previously said, I use a wireless router in my place and was really afraid it wasn't gonna recognize it. Again for my surprise, as soon as I got it installed I was able to browse for all the wireless networks on the neighborhood.
My problem: Now I can see all the networks, but for some reason I can't connect to it. It says there's an error with the hardware. I know the hardware is OK as it works on my Windows Installation, but was reading about something related to a Built In Firewall in the Ubuntu installation.
Will check that tonight and update this entry from my brand new Ubuntu installation.
