ralf on March 27th, 2010

I have successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 on my Samsung NC10 with dual boot side by side to windows XP Home. The installation process is very smart and allow you to import settings like desktop background from the installed windows xp home. Printer configuration was a bit complicated. The first thing is to change [...]

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ralf on March 10th, 2010

The default behavior of the tomcat6 server installed from the ubuntu repository is to forbid any read operation of System.getProperty(). I used tomcat6 as deployment target for the hudson builds on the same machine. AspectJ is used in a sample Spring 3 REST application. Tomcat6 logs (catalina-…log) shows the following exception Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access [...]

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ralf on July 11th, 2008

I switched recently on my home server from OpenSuse 10.3 to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4. Main reason was the package management with zypper as backend. Each Distro use several Software Repositories with RPMs where you can search for new software to install on your machine. Normally between four to eight repo’s are configured independent which [...]

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