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Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development. I though that installing this software in Ubuntu 7.04 is as easy is launching Synaptic Manager and install Bugzilla. But it turns out that there are few quirks here and there. Or shall we say installation is not really straight forward. I got it to start working by getting some information in Ubuntu forums, specifically this post . Since my main goal of installing this software is to try out the Task Based perspective of Eclipse, Mylyn, but it turns out that Task Repositories does not like http://localhost/cgi-bin/bugzilla/editparams.cgi, so I am pretty much stuck. After poking around, I got it working by modifying /etc/apache/httpd.conf, adding the following lines: #: nano -w /etc/apache/httpd.conf #<-- lots of lines before this of course Alias /bugs/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla/ AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +Indexes +ExecCGI DirectoryIndex index.cgi AllowOverride Limit

Since Debian Sarge is not officially supported by VMWare, getting Debian to work efficiently on VMWare needs some minor adjustments. Like the video driver, NIC and mouse driver needs to be updated. To take the full functionality of VMWare and to get better performance, user needs to install the vmware-tools. Below is a quick guide on how to install the vmware-tools in Debian Sarge. Note: need to log-in as root. 1) Get the version of Linux kernel. #: uname -r A sample output of the above command could be: >> 2.8.18-4-686 which basically says that you have a linux-2.8.18-4-686. 2) Now let us check if we have Linux headers for the version as shown above. #: apt-get install -s linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 The statement above means that we will do a simulated install of package "linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686". See below for a sample output: technomachine:/home/techno# apt-get install -s linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... D

I have been poking around STAX/STAF recently and I found a need to generate UUID or GUID in Windows. I tried uuid module in CPython but I can't call it inside my STAX job. I tried to create STAX process but I noticed that if the program is under heavy usage I cannot guarantee that the STAX process that runs the CPython gets the resulting UUID string. Since STAX is using Jython, I reasoned out that this should be possible in Java. A quick search in Google shows java.util.UUID. This class is just what I need. So, basically, in Jython I can generate a UUID using the following command: import java print java . util . UUID . randomUUID () ~ts~

In my previous post, I discussed how to generate GUID (Windows world) or the standard equivalent UUID to generate a guaranteed unique identifier from Python. I didn't know that their is a CPython library that can do this in a more platform neutral way. Just today, I came across the module uuid. uuid is now part of the standard Python library but as to when, I am not sure. One thing I am certain, it is there in Python 2.5.1. Below is a sample code to generate a UUID version 4 . import uuid print uuid . uuid4 () If you want to know more about UUID and the standards using it, please pay a visit to Wikipedia - UUID . ~ts~