http://informationideas.com/news Using technology to help your business Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:48:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en just came across this tool while researching testing frameworks. Selenium IDE for Firefox is essential for testing a website or web application on an actual browser. It records your actions on the browser and stores them as a test. Then the test can be run everything you want to verify ... http://informationideas.com/news/2010/01/07/selenium-ide-firefox-extension-for-testing-web-applications/ There is a bug in the IPv6 lookup in Karmic that is making any application requesting IPv6 while a NAT is not configured to respond to IPv6 respond very slowly. It is still a bug not solved at this time. Buta solution for Firefox is given here as a work ... http://informationideas.com/news/2009/12/08/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-slow-firefox/ Three places need to change to do this. sudo a2enmod rewrite Add AllowOverride All to virtual host file Add RewriteEngine On to .htaccess http://informationideas.com/news/2009/10/30/setup-mod-rewrite-on-apache/ When using the sphinx api, you must use SetLimts if you want more than 20 records.  Currently, it is not documented on the sphinx api doc. http://informationideas.com/news/2009/10/02/sphinx-search-default-limit-is-20/ For some reason, my workstation with Ubuntu 9.04, php5, apache2 and php5-curl install was giving me the curl package not installed message. Well, it turns out that for some reason, my default /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini had the extension directory pointing to /usr/lib/php5/ext/ while all the extensions were in /usr/lib/php5/20060613/ I was trying to ... http://informationideas.com/news/2009/10/02/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-curl_init-in-php/ If the linux kernel is upgraded, vmware will not load http://localhost:8222.  It requires a reconfigure when this happens.  Do the following. sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl http://informationideas.com/news/2009/08/18/vmware-server-must-be-reconfigured-kernel-upgrade/ This following line saved my butt when something happened and my root password was no longer working. sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.0 It will allow you to reset your root password without messing with the data or any other configuration in my.cnf. http://informationideas.com/news/2009/07/06/forget-your-mysql-root-password/ One strange thing when using Google Maps API with pictures in the info window is that sometimes the window is not tall enough to enclose all the content. It overflows the white info window background. The problems is because Google maps API tries to calculate the height of ... http://informationideas.com/news/2009/06/08/google-maps-info-window-size-problem-with-images/ If you are getting error messages when starting apache2 like "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName" or "[warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 80, the first has precedence" you need to make sure a couple of lines are in your /etc/apache2/httpd.conf  file. ServerName localhost NameVirtualHost *:80 http://informationideas.com/news/2009/05/04/ubuntu-apache2-virtualhost-setup-problems/ Setting up a Windows guest to serve to the LAN that the host Ubuntu is on is simple but a few gotchas to look out for. My Setup: 1. Host VM Ubuntu withd 2 NICs 2. Guest VM XP Pro serving http through IIS 3. Lan with DHCP exist at Host VM level 4. Host ... http://informationideas.com/news/2009/04/29/vmware-bridged-network-ubuntu-and-windows/