Tareq Alam

i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep – Robert Frost

How to download and install plone subversion code November 28, 2008

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http://plone.org/development/info/participation

I wanted to took part in plone development (though I am a novice)

thats why tried to get the code as described in the link and install.

That is a good tutorial to use for any svn code download and install for plone.

Setup a fresh Zope instance with all dependencies for PsARAAS:

$ svn co https://svn.siteurl.com/path foldername
$ cd foldername
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

Start the zope instance:
$ bin/instance fg

 

Change the default python version in ubuntu November 28, 2008

Ubuntu automatically installs python 2.5 and uses it as the default python … I have crashed my system 2 times to solve this .. I wanted to make the default python to version 2.4.

This is the way

before begaining Thanks to (Luiz Rocha (lsdr) ) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=440358

and http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/685071

First,

edit the /usr/share/python/debian_defaults, changing the default version arg to python2.4

2nd,

$ sudo mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python25
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python

 

Access Linux drives from windows xp November 28, 2008

I have installed ubuntu in my machine and I have XP installed also .. I want to access data of ubuntu from XP

I found a way here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324820

THe software link : http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

Just download the software and read the instructions while installing and install in your machine

then you can read and write the linux partition from XP …

cheers