ubuntu intrepid ibex java needs icedtea

in order to get mozilla working with java, you need to install the icedtea plugin after installing the open java stuff.

unix and windows: carriage returns with tr/sed/awk

cat -v myfile.csv

...and then you will see them at the end of the line as ^M (Ctrl-M)

delete them using tr like this, but this will only work in the following form if "\r" is recognised as a carriage return character. Some versions of tr and sed do not. So before you try this out you should set up a test file with a few "r"s in it in obvious places to make sure the following command is not just deleting "r"s.

tr -d '\r' <> outfile.csv

If the above command deleted "r"s instead of carriage returns then instead of using '\r' use 'Cntl-v-m'. The Cntl-v works on a few shells to let it know that you are going to enter a special character and the "m" you follow it with indicates a carriage return. "m" as in the "^M" you see at the end of the lines when you use cat -v.

There are other ways of removing these carriage returns. You can use sed to do it but again you have to check is it accepts "\r" as a carriage return by experimenting on a very small test file with a few obvious "r"s in it.

sed 's/\r$//' infile.csv > outfile.csv

On a final note, you might have to convert a Unix file to a DOS/Windows file sometimes. You can do it like this:

awk '{ print $0 "\r"}' unix.txt > dos.txt

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simple:
tr -d '\015' <> new.file

more simple:
perl -pi -e 's/\015//g' file

freebsd jails from sysinstall

sysinstall nonInteractive=yes _ftpPath=ftp://ftp2.ch.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD mediaSetFTP distSetMinimum installRoot=/var/jails/192.168.0.1 releaseName=6.1-RELEASE installCommit

freebsd native firefox, linux-firefox, and linux-opera with flash and java.

ok, i like firefox. dont really like opera. but...i had to succumb.

running freebsd 7 with native firefox for java v6 (diablo-latte) works great, and adds appropriate java entries to the pluginreg.dat which is actually shared with linux-firefox (for proper flash support...nspluginwrapper was causing flash to be out of synch (youtube) for me, but linux-firefox with linux-flashplugin7 worked fine.

linux-opera to the rescue ; everytime i started linux-firefox it would overwrite my pluginreg.dat (which i had some specific java variables in there) - it pissed me off that i couldn't use both firefoxes... i thought about maybe using a diff profile but it pulls pluginreg.dat before the profiles...so i just decided to use linux-opera and be done w/it. thats what i decided on.

btw, i hate flash and java. but both are necessary for my line of work...bullshit.

i need flash to watch videos and listen to music on youtube.
i need java to work with some screwed up oracle applications we use at work.

at least i get to use unix.