Getting Ant to run on Windows 7 (64bit)
If like me, you use Ant to deploy builds, etc, and you have migrated to Windows 7 – you may well have troubles getting ant to run. It all worked flawlessly under Ubuntu, but Windows is a different beast – here’s a step by step guide to getting it working.
Remove svn folders from Ubuntu
When backing up a source code working copy, you don’t always want all the little .svn folders everywhere. You can “export” the working copy, or if you forgot, you have remove them all. Change the the folder containing the working copy (this is very important*) cd /home/username/www/sitename/ And then remove them all, recursively with this [...]
Cisco VPN client on Windows 7 64bit
If you’re trying to get Cisco VPN client installed on Windows 7 – 64bit then you may as well give up. I’ve tried just about every method discussed on the internet. However, http://www.shrew.net/download have a VPN client that will allow you to import your PCF file and it works!
Export Thunderbird contacts to Outlook
I wanted to export my Thunderbird Contacts to Microsoft Outlook 2010 beta. Jesus, if that wasn’t the most stressful export ever! Thunderbird can only export as CSV or tab separated – or LDAP. Outlook says it can import from CSV and Tab separated, however it just crashes with mapping errors. I tried dragging them from [...]
Programmers Excuses
Installing Tahoma font in Ubuntu
The stylesheet of our intranet is primarily Tahoma, and Firefox on Ubuntu doesn’t look good. To install the Microsoft Core Fonts package in Ubuntu, run the following in your terminal: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts And then this should go away and get them. Lovely. NB, if this doesn’t take immediate effect, you can rebuild the [...]