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I configured Virtualbox guest machine to run Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) but performance is just not acceptable. It probably has to do with my host machine not having a good enough graphics hardware. Anyway, to make it bearable, I have gone Gnome Fallback mode. Anyway, below is my clean configuration from scratch to have a better performance running under VirtualBox. Initial clean-up and pre-requisites, open terminal ( Ctrl+Alt+T ): $: sudo apt-get update $: sudo apt-get upgrade $: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback Log out from session $: gnome-session-quit From the GDM, select Gnome Fallback(No effects), see below for screen capture. Log back in to Ubuntu. To make it even better, install VirtualBox guest additions. But first let us install the pre-requisites and some clean-up. $: apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-vmware libxatracker1 $: apt-get install dkms build-essential From VirtualBox Guest main UI, select Devices | Install Guest Additions... .H

When opening a PyDev console using Jython 2.7b3, I am getting the following error message. console: Failed to install '': java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException: cp0 This does not show up in Jython 2.5. Note that this was already reported elsewhere, like: http://sourceforge.net/p/jython/mailman/message/32935457/ http://bugs.jython.org/issue2222%3E To workaround this issue, add  -Dpython.console.encoding=UTF-8 in PyDev configuration, see below for details.

c:\> sqlcmd -S .\Db_INSTANCE -Q "DROP DATABASE dbname" Where: Db_INSTANCE is the name of SQL Server instance dbname is the name of the database to drop Reference(s): http://windows-linux-admin.blogspot.com/2011/06/deleting-database-with-sqlcmd.html

This may apply to other SQL Server 2005 products but since I haven't not tried them myself, I can't definitely say that this is the case. Anyway, on default SQL Server 2005 Express install it will create one sql server instance named "SQLEXPRESS." For most occasions this should do just fine but in some cases a named/new instance is necessary to partition/compartmentalize the development of an application. Creating a new sql server instance is actually very easy. To create a new instance, do the following: a) Secure a copy of SQL 2005 Express installation media. b) Run setup.exe. c) Accept license agreement. After accepting the agreement, the installation program will perform various other checks like disk space available... etc. d) "Welcome to the Microsoft SQL Server Installation Wizard" just lazily hit on "Next" button. e) In System Configuration Check screen, if the reports are okay then proceed, hit on "Next" button again. f)

c:\> sqlcmd -S .\DB_INSTANCE -Q "exec sp_databases" Reference(s): http://windows-linux-admin.blogspot.com/2011/06/list-all-databases-with-sqlcmd.html

Send email via GMAIL using Python. Note: Need to disable CAPTCHA and enable access for less secure apps https://www.google.com/settings/security https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha References: www.mkyong.com/python/how-do-send-email-in-python-via-smtplib/ http://joequery.me/guides/python-smtp-authenticationerror/

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