Installed the entire Qt suite, only to see the QtCreator IDE failing to start? This happened recently with my Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine. I faced some errors related to OpenGL. After hunting around on the web, I stumbled upon the askubuntu forum and got the answer.
After figuring out from various sources, I finally made it. A fully functional load balancing setup for Glassfish Server 4 with Apache as the front end, with the help of the backbone, the mod_jk plugin. This is in continuation with the clustering tutorial which I re-blogged earlier. Read on to see how it was configured…
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Recently I was setting up two of my Ubuntu 15.04 virtual machines in VirtualBox for development purposes, one server and one desktop version. I had set up everything except MySQL. I already had a MySQL database in my crappy old laptop which I wanted to migrate to the new setup. After spending over an hour, I finally managed to successfully complete the data migration between both MySQL databases. Read on to know what technical adventures I had…
I always like to try new things out, sometimes even before they are actually available. For example, I have two different versions of Java installed, namely, 1.8 and 1.9. So how do I switch between your installed Java options? The tool called update-alternatives solves this issue like a pro.
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There are many resources on the web which give you commands to mass rename files, like sed or some script or whatever. For those who use Linux and are not so comfortable working with commands, mass file renaming using Thunar file manager is for you.
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The new UI in Ubuntu has its own pros and cons. If you are one of those who would like to always have the text-based location bar instead of the breadcrumbs bar in Nautilus file manager, read on to see how.
Man vs. Technology 