Fix for Zend Studio 7 Button Problems in Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”
After updating to Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", i had some problems with Zend Studio GUI, some buttons when clicked appear to be pressed, but no action follows.
After searching for a while i found this fix in Zend support pages, and it solved the issue
here is the link for the fix :
http://kb.zend.com/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=435
Desktop Linux For The Windows Power User
Very nice article about Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty", posted by Adam Overa yesterday on tomshardware.com
Click here to read : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-guide,2293.html
Highlights :
- Introduction
- Understanding Partitions
- Partitioning
- Installation
- Booting Ubuntu for the first time
- Ubuntu Desktop
- Updating Ubuntu system & drivers
- How to install software on Ubuntu
- Codecs for multimedia playback on Ubuntu
- Getting help online
Enjoy reading & feel the freedom, Long live Ubuntu 
Ubuntu / Open Source Presentation in Cairo Univeristy
IEEE has organized an open source week in Cairo University, for Engineering Students, i have been happy to be recommended to present the first day.
http://www.ieee-cusb.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78:open-source-week
I started with a presentation about Open Source, definitions and different lisences, and what is the whole story about, then a presnentation about Ubuntu and a live Demonstration, then installation session where more than 150 Ubuntu CD was distributed.
The audience was about 200 student, and some graduates also, was a great day, it is such a pleasure to help people kiss the blue screen of death Goodbye 
How to enable Remote Desktop on Ubuntu from Terminal
The remote desktop function in ubuntu is a nice handy one, to enable it from terminal
first ssh to the server you wanna remote desktop, then install tightvncserver
sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
then run it
tightvncserver
it will ask you to set a password for using this option and it will return the x desktop id.
Now go to Applications -> Internet ->Remote Desktop Viewer, and enter the address of the machine followed by the x desktop id like this :
servername:1
where 1 is the x server id.
Converting bin image to iso on Ubuntu
Well, first you have to install bchunk
sudo apt-get install bchunk
then use the command as following to convert the image
bchunk image.bin image.cue image.iso
and the bin image will be converted to iso one in the same folder.
How to disable sudo password prompt in Linux
well, sometimes i want to execute commands as super user without being asked for password each time to do that
to do that its pretty easy
open the terminal and type this command :
sudo visudoand uncomment the following line :
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
save the file by pressing escape then typing :wq and pressing enter.
from now on you will not be asked when executing the command as super user using sudo.
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid – Fix Static IP & Network Manager Problem
Hey all,
today i have installed the new release of Ubuntu, 8.10 Intrepid
but i had a problem setting my IP to a static one, when i do this through the network manager, and when i edited the network files manually nothing worked, so here is the steps i followed to solve the problem :
first i removed the network manager
sudo update-rc.d -f NetworkManager remove
then i added my network configuration by editing the file /etc/network/interfaces
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
so it looks like
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.xxx
then i edited the file /etc/resolv.conf to add my DNS
sudo nano -w /etc/resolv.conf
to look like
# Generated by NetworkManager nameserver 192.168.1.xxx
then i restart the networking by :
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
if u still have problems, i suggest you restart the machine and check, the above steps is how i got my network up .
enjoy the new Ubuntu 
Install Subversion with Web Access on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
well, it is very useful to have a subversion server so u can have different versions of your applications; for back up and to be able to restore old versions, and be able to share the project with the team, when there is more than one developer working on it.
1- install apache
sudo apt-get install apache2
2- install subversion
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn
3- We're going to create the subversion repository in /svn
sudo svnadmin create /svn
4- Now we'll need to edit the configuration file for the subversion webdav module
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf
we will comment the following line, so we can access the repository using the address http://www.servername.com/svn
<Location /svn>
</Location>
and the following line to enable the dav module
DAV svn
and the following line to set the path to our repository which is /svn in our case
SVNPath /svn
and the following 3 lines to enable basic authentication
AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion Repository" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
5- We create a user to have access to our repository
sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
where is the desired login name
6- We restart the apache server
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
7- You can access now the repository using the address : http://www.servername.com/svn
Flowchart applications on Ubuntu
If you would like to draw diagrams and flowcharts on your ubuntu there is 2 programs that is alternative to smart draw on windows :
- Dia
to install type the following command in terminal :
sudo apt-get install dia
- Kivio
to install type the following command in terminal :
sudo apt-get install kivio
U can use them also to draw mind maps
enjoy
How to read chm files on Ubuntu
This can be easily done with install GnoCHM, the CHM viewere for Linux
you can install it by executing this command in the terminal
sudo apt-get install gnochm
enjoy
