spellchecker in (OO) open-office on ubuntu !!

After 2 hrs of brain storming on weekend in my office finally got spell checker working for my open office 3.2 on ubuntu 10.04. i had to take expert help from Hobbes, nigleb and lastly Indranil dada and it worked. sudo apt-get install hunspell  myspell-en-us openoffice.org-help-en-us Once this is installed  open a open office document …

Setting up Monit (On Ubuntu) ..

Apart from playing with the Source Code Open Source Software has given us. Installing Monit :–   sudo apt-get install monit This command will install Monit on Ubuntu. In order to Start the Monit we need to edit file  “/etc/default/monit” and set the  “startup= 1” This will start the Monit, but we need to do …

Curious case of Redmine Upgrade

Well i call it curious cos i been just told to upgrade Redmine without giving any other details. some strange situation :– [php] $ dpkg -l rails [/php] gave me nothing (omg my redmine instance running without Rails) After some googling and #redmine irc channel i figured out like python easy_install and ubuntu/debian ruby uses …

Recovering the deleted JPG files.

Its been some time i posted here, my apology. It was great last evening as me Achet and Tanya wer out 4 dinner and at same time we been clicking our photos. Tanya unknowingly deleted all the photographs we had taken that evening and she was feeling way to bad. I knew there must be …

Curious case of denyhost and ssh.

I been using denyhost on my own server and many other boxes i been taking care of. I was getting error whenever i tried connecting to my server “ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host” After checking logfile i figured that its happening because of the denyhost. The documentation at the denyhost website explains how to …

Running your first Ruby on rails application (hello world), on Ubuntu Lucid.

1.Installing Ruby and Ruby on Rails. $ sudo apt-get install ruby rails 2.Creating first application running on WEBrick server. $ rails test create create app/controllers create app/helpers create app/models create app/views/layouts create config/environments create config/initializers create config/locales create db create doc create lib create lib/tasks create log create public/images create public/javascripts create public/stylesheets create script/performance …

Auctex mode in Emacs on Ubuntu(Jaunty)

sudo apt-get install auctex, preview-latex-style #Once installed add the below mentioned part in your “.emacs” file. ;; Math mode for LaTex (add-hook ‘LaTeX-mode-hook ‘LaTeX-math-mode) ;;mouse scrolling (mouse-wheel-mode t) ;; spellcheck in LaTex mode (add-hook `latex-mode-hook `flyspell-mode) (add-hook `tex-mode-hook `flyspell-mode) (add-hook `bibtex-mode-hook `flyspell-mode) ;; Show line-number and column-number in the mode line (line-number-mode 1) (column-number-mode 1) …