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Linux and Yahoo Messenger

You used to use Yahoo Messenger and talk to you friends through it under Windows? Also used Webcam, Voice Chatting, sharing files and other features of it ? But for some (university came up Linux became more important) or other reasons you had to change from your beloved Windows (“bazinga”) and your missing all the features of your Yahoo messenger you had once in Windowzs. How can you enable a working Yahoo messenger in linux, that provides you most of the functionality?

Wrongly committed file versions to CVS repository

When a new colleague is working for the first time with CVS, it can happen that he/she does mistakes when committing files to the repository. In case a file is wrongly committed (either once or multiple times) to the repository, then it is a good practice to clean-up the mistake and delete the wrongly committed file versions.

Installing and Running Protégé 4.1

Description Protégé is an environment for creating and editing ontologies and knowledge bases.

Facebook Application - access token issue

I created my FB application and I have a lot of user IDs of my friends. I want to use this application for search in my friends list by place, education .... The problem is that it is shown in the FB console test application how great it works with the access token, but it doesn't work for my application like that. I can received just very small amount of information about them.

Fetch data from an MySQL database trough excel

Mostly a large collection of data is stored in a relational database. Relational databases have the advantage that they are offering a high level of perfomance especially for a large number of data records and especially when having aggregated queries. SQL is the most common computer language to communicate and control a relational database management system (RDMS). It offers various possibilites to fetch data (e.g. a JOIN tables within one query in order to receive aggregated data from different tables in one result set). Furthermore it allows to make certain limitations (e.g.

Emacs does not remember custom theme settings

After adding the following line to <quote>init.el</quote> <code> (load-theme 'solarized-dark) </code> Emacs asks the following 2 questions on every start: <cite>Loading a theme can run Lisp code. Really load (y or n)</cite> <cite>Treat this theme as safe in future sessions? (y or n)</cite> Answering both questions with "y" does have no effect, Emacs doesn't remember previous decisions.

Apple's iCloud only allows iWork Documents

Apples iCloud only allows iWork documents to be saved online and to synchronize them with your iOS and Mac devices.

Java applets don't work on Mac OS X

All webpages that use Java applets show a "Missing Plug-in" error message. Safari & Firefox both don't work.

Efficient CouchDB time-range queries

CouchDB is a modern key/value-store that has only limited query capabilities (esp.

Photoupload in a Ruby on Rails application

A lot of Ruby on Rails web applications have to use photos (e.g. for user profiles) In the best case these photos can be already stored in several sizes or otherwise processed before being stored to different possible location. Also these photos have to be attache to a ruby on rails model like an user or an article.

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