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I love AutoHotkey for Windows because you can set up a key like Ctrl+Alt+F to activate the Firefox window if it's running.
From this thread, I discovered wmctrl and keylaunch:
sudo apt-get install keylaunch wmctrl
Then create a file ~/keylaunchrc. For example:
# Format:
# key=...KeyName:Command
#
# ... No modifier
# *.. Shift
# .*. Ctrl
# ..* Alt
key=.**f:wmctrl -a Mozilla Firefox # Activate a window that contains 'Mozilla Firefox' in its title when you press Ctrl+Alt+F
Finally, you need to run keylaunch to get the hot keys working.
Also, check out launchy: It's very handy for launching an application by typing the name.
Matt
At least as of VirtualBox 2.2.2 for Linux, you don't need to convert the VMWare hard disk. You can just create a new machine in VirtualBox, and as a disk select the virtual hard disk file in you VMWare machine. Done! (You'll just need to install the VirtualBox machine additions in the new machine to enjoy the same level of integration)
And remember, as the Help of VirtualBox proclaims...
Warning
Do not run other hypervisors (open-source or commercial virtualization products) together with VirtualBox! While several hypervisors can normally be installed in parallel, do not attempt to run several virtual machines from competing hypervisors at the same time. VirtualBox cannot track what another hypervisor is currently attempting to do on the same host, and especially if several products attempt to use hardware virtualization features such as VT-x, this can crash the entire host.
Update: My pains to this day with Ubuntu 9.04:
Pros:
Conclusion: I like Linux, but if I had to choose now an OS, I would go for XP: it's 8 years old, unsafe and much more, but it generally works out of the box with most software, and forum answer hunting nights are a foreign experience. It's a matter of productivity.
To Install Ubuntu 9.04 in a Dell Vostro 1510 notebook
First of all, don't download the official ubuntu 9.04 CD. Download the Dell one: http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/jaunty/iso-images/ubuntu-9.04-dell-reinstall.iso (from http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_9.04 ). With the Dell one, apparently, sound works off the shelf.
Wireless: I have Dell 1505 Wireless-N. Follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff with step 2d
Audio: (Because I installed the official Ubuntu CD, not the Dell one)
(Option 1. Described below. I started with this, got it to work, and a few days after (lots of system tweaking action in the middle), it stopped working, so I did Option 2 below. So my advice is, forget about option 1.)
Option 2.
You can use this to reload the alsa config: sudo alsa force-reload
I got the following by booting from the Dell live cd (using usb-create). Put the following into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
# autoloader aliases
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
#
# Workaround at bug #499695 (reverted in Ubuntu see LP #319505)
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-oss ; : ; }
#
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist saa7134-alsa ; : ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options saa7134-alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-us122l index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
# Keep snd-pcsp from beeing loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2
(Option 1.
With the following I made it possible to play music in linux while having VirtualBox running on ALSA and playing sound (you must configure the VirtualBox sound setting to ALSA).
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JavaScript:
The JavaScript encode() function doesn't handle Unicode. See http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/ for alternatives.
The jQuery serialize() function works well with Unicode.
Python:
urllib.urlencode(), urllib.quote() and urllib.quote_plus don't handle unicode strings. So instead of
urllib.urlencode(u'a unicode string')
... do:
urllib.urlencode(u'a unicode string'.encode('utf-8'))
In the above case I'm assumming that the string is already Unicode (which seems to be the case when you got it off Django, maybe from a GET parameter). If it's in another encoding, you must previously do:
'a byte string encoded in X'.decode(encoding_goes_here).encode('utf-8')
I just got started on Vista after years of developing on XP. When I tried Django's
manage.py runserver
which defaults to localhost:8000, I got this error:
Django version 1.1 alpha 1 SVN-10020, using settings 'mashup.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Error: [Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions
It turns out Aptana Studio is also using port 8000 for it internal server, so Vista instead of reporting that port 8000 is already binded to, rambles about access permissions. I had been doing the same thing in Windows XP, but apparently XP lets you run two servers on the same port without complaining (crazy!)
Solution:
manage.py runserver localhost:8001
Matt
