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Installing swftools on ubuntu pc

Here is the nice article for the above topics http://designbye.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/installing-swftools-and-pdf2swf-on-ubuntu-linux/

Java Development with Ubuntu 10.10

This is first step of migration for the software engineers from window platform to linux platform. I am Java Developer and doing my java development in windows platform.   Here is my window development configurations: OS - windows 7 Java version  - JDK 6 IDE -  Netbeans 6.91 Application Server -  Tomcat 7 Database Server -  MySQL Version Control -  tortoisesvn Ok. Lets assume you have successfully installed and setup the Ubuntu 10.10 and can access the internet. Step 1: Install Java It is obvious that most of linux dis have installed Open JDK at the os installation time. If you are new for java development go this Open JDK.(I never tested open Jdk with netbeans). But when you run your existing code, you might get errors and the only solution for that is use sun java jdk.  In this step i am going to show you how to install sun jdk for ubuntu 10.10. Go to Ubuntu Software Center  A pplications –> Ubuntu Software Center. Then click  Edit –> Software Sources.. Next, se

How to copy Copy Protected VCD

Today i bought a nursery rhymes VCD from the market to my daughter. Even though it playing well with the VCD player, I just wanted to have a copy of that VCD in my laptop as it is easy to play it later on without finding the cd in the rack. Also i am pretty sure that those VCDs might not be able to read after 1 to 2 years time as the low quality of them. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and i can't play the vcd with the default settings. I tried with VLC and movie player. In movie player it is giving the error massage saying.."Could not read from resource". With VLC i am getting " File reading failed: VLC could not read the file." These are the step to play/copy the above type of VCDs, Open linux shell (Application --> Asseseries-->Terminal) Type "sudo apt-get install vcdimager" and press enter (You need to have internet connection) Type "vcdxrip". You will get warn massage and wait until it complete the operation and get the cursor