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Changing Eclipse Hover Black Popup Color in Linux Mint
The Eclipse IDE is built with SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit. Unlike Swing or other Java GUI Frameworks it works as a wrapper around GTK, or the Gnome Toolkit, the library underlying most Linux...
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Changing Application Properties in Ubuntu Unity Dash
I’m using Eclipse Mars across the board now and installed it on my second desktop PC which runs Ubuntu. (My primary desktop runs Linux Mint.) When I went to fire up Mars in Ubuntu Unity Dash I realized...
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Solr and Tomcat Upgrade Checklist
I’m in the happy position of running the most current releases of Solr and Tomcat on my Linode Virtual Ubuntu Server. Not only that, but my public server is now identical to my development environment...
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The Joe Editor Undo Keyboard Shortcut in Linux
This Old Dog is digging using Joe as my terminal editor in Linux. It’s a WordStar clone and the 90’s were a good time for me as a Techster. Below is a screenshot of the Joe Editor in action. You can...
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Profile Image Uploads: On Image File Storage
This is the final post in our series on creating a Profile Image Uploads function. We looked at Spring elements, leveraging Thymeleaf and overall design. Here we’ll look specifically at File Storage...
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Exim4 Configuration Notes for Developers
Developers often have to do it all, which means configuring SMTP on their Development or Cloud Server so they can get back to coding their email app. For Linux users the best and easiest package to...
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I guess I haven’t installed MariaDB for a while cause last time the installation was a snap. A few minutes and you were up and running. Today a roadblock appeared to extend the installation time...
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The Saga of the Case Insensitive MySQL Table Name
It all started when Spring Social was failing to create new users with OAuth. After upping the Log Level of org.springframework.social to “debug” in the logback.xml I was able to see the problem. This...
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Styling Meld in Linux Mint Cinnamon
Meld is an excellent File and Directory Comparison Utility for Linux. I recently upgraded to Linux Mint Sarah 18.1 which uses the latest Cinnamon v3.2.7 Desktop Environment based on GTK+3.0. It’s...
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Samba Tips for your Linux Family Share
With my new Linux Mint PC and its huuuge hard drive it seemed a good time to create a Samba Share for the family. The family includes users on both Windows and Linux PCs. We’re going to create our...
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