Eclipse Juno looks terrible in Linux Mint 13 with the MATE desktop environment. Here’s an example of part of the screen: Everything is big and bulky, the tool bar’s style doesn’t really match the theme’s style. Here are the steps I’ve taken so far to correct this: Create a file called gtkrc, I’ve created […]
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I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to learn this: Python’s default argument values are only evaluated once during runtime. I’ve never encountered this before because I don’t use default arguments very often, and when I do, it’s often to set something to a static value. Today, I encountered a function definition where I
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Install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Express Edition. Go to the command prompt. First, I had to set the following variable: C:>set VS90COMNTOOLS=C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7Tools Note the trailing backslash – that needs to be there. The value must also NOT be in quotes. C:>cd “Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0vcbin” C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0VCbin>vcvars32
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Because Python isn’t strongly typed, sometimes PyDev doesn’t know what type a variable is – and therefore it cannot give you accurate code completions. Here’s how to make that better. In simpler situations, PyDev works very well. For example: emp = Employee() Typing ’emp.’ will get you a good autocomplete. Now, let’s say you have
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I needed to return all the members of an object as an XML document in Python. I used the ElementTree library to do this. The class in question is pretty basic: It has a constructor, member variables, getters and setters for the member variables, and now this new function. Every Python class has a built-in
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Often times, in your Squid proxy, you may have a redirector configured – such as SquidGuard: redirect_program /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/etc/squid/squidGuard.conf I ran into a problem tonight with my Roku box where SquidGuard was seeing Roku’s NetFlix access as a security threat. So, to make Squid bypass the redirector, add an ACL and a redirector-access rule:
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By default, Squid sends HTTP headers on every request that can give away information about your internal network. Here’s an example of these headers: HTTP_VIA:1.1 proxyserver.local (squid/3.1.16) HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:192.168.0.123 That’s three pieces of information you may not want to give away: The host name of your proxy server, the version of Squid it’s running, and the
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Apparently, it’s necessary to use separate CSS properties for each browser. .unselectable { -webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; -o-user-select: none; user-select: none; }
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If you have a switch, access point or other piece of network hardware that supports 802.1q VLAN tagging, and you’d like to your FreeBSD system to recognize them, it’s a pretty straight-forward configuration. I’ll use examples from my network to illustrate. My goal in this case, which I may write about in a separate post,
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Most of us don’t have native IPv6 Internet connections at home. Fortunately, it’s easy (and free) to get connected to the IPv6 Internet. Here’s how to get your FreeBSD box connected.
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