Sory for the stupid question. I install apache2 / php / sql from the console with "aptitude install .." hot can i run php from command line

January 12

anyone programming in python?:) ..im a beginer def hello(): print "hello" t = threading.Timer(5.0, hello).start() t = threading.Timer(5.0, hello) t.start() i would like to make a thread which will repeat every 5 sec. i done that...but when i exi

January 11

Ok so here's the deal.... I'm currently an IT student, right now I'm on a DB course and I need to use set up MySQL, Java, JDBC...etc. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems MySQL development in Linux is way ahead of Windows devel, so I've decided to do

January 11

everyone. Before I get to the problem, it might help if I gave you a bit of a background on my problem(s). I'm pretty new to nix, and taking an into to UNIX class at my college and it operates on the principle of learning UNIX with linux. Aside from

January 11

Got a little java problem, cant seem to figure it out. I wanna point a JMenuItem to one of the tabs, so when i click the MenuItem the tab is selected. screenshot

January 11

I would like to ask anyone who has used glade-3 to build nice gui(s)...that...is there any way to fill treeviews from the gui of glade-3 ? I am not asking how to do that from the code...i have already done so using C++, Java and Python...and the inte

January 11

I read it once and cannot find it again... i want to download pages 1 to 30 i.e. wget www.whatever.com/folder/1.html where the 1 is replaced [1 to 30] thanks for this... p.s. go ubuntu... :guitar:

January 11

I'm a new programmer, about to start a 4 year computer science course in London. I've been programming in KDevelop for a little while with C++ & SDL, but I found KDevelop over complicated, under documented and with poor support. I recently switched t

January 11

If I use the command: grep some_special_filtering_word_here some_file_name >somenewfile.txt It goes in a file, finds the line with the filter word you stipulate and then copies that entire line to another file. That's exactly what I want to do, but i

January 11

I am wondering how to write a program that will draw a circle around the mouse when a key combination is pressed. So, shift+enter will draw a small box around the mouse, and depressing the keys will make it go away. I'd like to make my own kind of pa

January 11

I am new to programing in linux, i have worked with c++ for a while though. I am trying to make a simple program to take every single movie i have in a folder and convert it using mencoder, i have it working to run the commands, i just need to know t

January 10

So you're willing to write your own C or C++ programs, or simply compile someone else's code? This guide will get you started... This FAQ assumes you're trying to compile error-free code. To actually learn the C or C++ languages, see the How to start

January 10

im working on a new project in Python. I started because i wanted to experience python and its features as well as messing with the MSN protocol. Im working on an MSN Messenger, i know there is emesene, but i wanted to create one on my own. Ive creat

January 10

How do I make mobile games for nokia n73 with python? Or how do I make GUI with python anyway?

January 10

I'm writing a GUI for rsync, ssh and a few other things on Windows. Basically I'm launching tcsh -i, and redirecting stdout stderr and stdin. The problem is that when ssh prompts for a password, that doesn't seem to fall under stdout or stderr. I hav

January 10

For anyone who is interested, I created a little control panel for an Eee PC running [eee][X|K]ubuntu that takes advantage of the eee kernel module (http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/). This is actually my first time using Gtk, Glade and creating

January 10

A nice time based animation I saw on the web. I wanted to do this with the Ubuntu polls but I don't know how to get the proper data quick enough? Anyhow someone should do a similar animation with the Ubuntu project that would be cool. http://www.vime

January 10

a, i recently decided on trying my hand with python but the only reference i can find is at python.org and its an online help system. i couldn't find a way to download it in one file for offline use. any suggestions?

January 10

I hacked out a high level abstraction for controlling Compiz Fuzion over DBus messaging. Its really simple, you pretty much just tell it what to do and it does it. Download can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/pycompiz/

January 10

Not sure if this is the right forum, so if there is a better forum for the question, please let me know. My 11 year old daughter has expressed an interest in learning to program. All of our PCs are running ubuntu. I don't know that she is ready for J

January 10