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You may have problems connecting to MySQL from Java applications using Connector/J (the Java connector for MySQL) after upgrading/migrating MacPorts to a newer version. It happened to me after updating Mac OS X to El…

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unetbootin

Ref: https://launchpad.net/~gezakovacs/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Some time ago I had installed Apache+MySQL using MacPorts in Mac OS X. It was all OK as long as I used the web browser to navigate thru the web pages, but as I runned PHP via CLI to execute Symfony2 commands I started having problems. It said for example that my…

I wanted to add libfdk_aac support to ffmpeg because the documentation says it’s the best quality option for AAC encoding.

After several hours having problems with serialized object with spanish texts in it, finally this function I found in magp.ie worked like a charm:

function mb_unserialize($string) {
    $string =…

Although is recommended using a dedicated media center distribution (raspbmc, openelec or xbian for example) because they come already configured, if you decide to install XBMC on your own in Raspbian you may have problems playing videos. If you don’t see video and it just plays…

# Install XBMC
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://archive.mene.za.net/raspbian wheezy contrib' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mene.list"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 5243CDED
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc

# Add input group if it…