Web server: Linux (Ubuntu on my dev setup), Apache, PHP 5.3, Symfony 1.4, Doctrine 1.2. Database server: Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, MS SQL Server Trying to get Symfony to talk to the database server has been a painful experience for the last few days. But perseverance has paid off. Lots of Googling with trial & [...]
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Google calendar in Mozilla Thunderbird on Ubuntu 11.10
November 18th, 2011
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Via the Ubuntu Software Centre: Search for thunderbird Click on the search result “Thunderbird Email” and then on the “More Info” button Enable at least the “Calendar Extension for Thunderbird – Google Calendar support (xul-ext-gdata-provider)” Install the add-ons Open your Google Calendar in your web browser In the left-hand column, under “My calendars”, hover over [...]
upstart failing to manage mysqld on Ubuntu 10.04
May 21st, 2010
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Installed Ubuntu 10.04 from ISO onto a blank virtual box machine. All worked well for a while, until I recently did an aptitude safe-upgrade. The next time I booted the system, mysql failed to start and refused to do so when I issued: sudo service mysql start It would just hang there. Tracked the issue [...]
