Interesting comment from the trenches:
After much testing, it's clear that Postel's advice to protocol designers ("be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send") invites a natural-law repercussion for JS as "protocol":
"If you are liberal in what you accept, others will utterly fail to be conservative in what they send."
Found here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsscan.cpp#1464 while looking at SpiderMonkey source code.
I have a Xubuntu 9.04 machine that is hosting some VMs running on VMWare Server. I recently upgraded a bunch of packages on the host machine and then I noticed that the VMWare Server was not starting automatically anymore. I tried running it manually and I got the error message: vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system.
What happened is that one of the upgraded packages was the Linux Kernel
and a new Kernel version will break VMWare because it originally compiled for
the previous Kernel version that was on the machine. To fix
this I had to run the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script to reconfigure
and recompile several components. After running the script, VMWare
server started up again as normal.
Let me know if you had this problem before.
Every so often I have to setup a web development server and one of the first things I have to have on that server is Emacs. As an Emacs fanatic, I need to have the very latest bleeding-edge version. In order to ensure that, I clone the official git repository into my home directory and then I compile and build from there. Most of the time I will be performing the steps below on a Ubuntu Server distribution (these work on versions 8.10, 9.04, and 9.10) without X installed.
sudo apt-get install build-essentials gcc git-core texinfo \
libncurses5-dev
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd ./emacs
sudo ./configure --without-x
sudo make
sudo make install
Some notes: The need for the build-essentials, gcc, and git-core are pretty obvious; the texinfo package is needed for the makeinfo dependency; and the libncurses5-dev is needed for the termcap.h dependency.
The above will also work on a desktop distro, but you will be limited to a terminal version of Emacs. In order to install a graphical version of Emacs you will also need to install the following extra packages:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libtiff4-dev libgif-dev \
libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libxpm-dev
The above line will also install a bunch of other dependencies needed by the libraries. Don't forget to also remove the --without-x parameter and run just this line:
sudo ./configure
Let me know how it works for you.
