Building the extension from source (using pecl) requires the instantclient-sdk package.

Since i could not find this for debian i used the rpm’s on oracles download site.

First convert them to deb’s using alien.

Then dpkg -i

Then pecl install oci8

Finally add the extension to the php.ini used by apache and reload apache.

However in display objects this often requires a whole lot of boilerplate code listening for when your component is removed from the stage and even more if you consider that it might be re added at a later date.

Fortunately if you create a change watcher within your display object the scope of that change watcher is limited to the scope of the display object and so it doesn’t prevent the garbage collector from removing the object and watcher when the object is removed from the stage and you can avoid the boilerplate.

However whilst profiling my app today i have discovered that if your change watcher is listening to a property chain rather than a single property then this is not the case.

In this case multiple ChangeWatchers are created that reference each other and this, for some reason unknown to me, prevents the GC from collecting the ChangeWatchers and hence your display object.

Unfortunately in this case the boilerplate seems necessary

Love to hear if anyone could explain what is happening here…

The current release of virtualbox packages no longer have this problem however the old packages are not removed from the status file.

The only solution seems to be to modify the status file by hand and remove the packages.

Another solution is to use this script written by Julien Valroff that clears purged packages from your status file.

Thankyou Julien.

sudo export http_proxy=http://uname:pass@proxy:port

apt / aptitude will now use that proxy.


ProxyRequests on
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Required"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/proxy.passwd
Require valid-user
</Proxy>


You must obviously have mod_proxy activated in your apache.

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so


To create the password file and add a user alice do

htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/proxy.passwd alice


Or on Windows

netstat -aon | findstr 123 (get the process id)
tasklist | findstr processId


I wanted to move all the uppercase JPG to lowercase.

This is the script that did it:

for f in *.JPG
do
new=${f:0:${#f}-4}
mv $f ${new}.jpg
done

At the command line typing “at” shows the programmed tasks.

To add a task use something like

at 02:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su c:\path\to\script.bat

First make sure that libnss3-tools are installed:
sudo aptitude install libnss3-tools

Then download the certificates for CAcerts

wget -o "cacert-class3.crt" "http://www.cacert.org/certs/class3.crt"
 
wget -o "cacert-class3.crt" "http://www.cacert.org/certs/class3.crt"

Import them into the database

certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "TC,," \
-n "CAcert.org" -i cacert-root.crt
 
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "TC,," \
-n "CAcert.org Class 3" -i cacert-class3.crt

What is this?

-d = where the database resides
-A = add action
-t = trust flags. In this case T identifies these certificates as certificate issuers any certificate issued by these authorites will be trusted. The C identifies the certificate as a root CA certificate. There are three different situations in which you can define trust flags: SSL, email and object signing. Here we just define the first one SSL.
-n = nickname
-i = certificate file

Lastly we can delete the downloaded files
$rm cacert-root.crt cacert-class3.crt