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Having Mono on Ubuntu

Here is it, with .Net 3.5 support, awaiting 4.0, to be included in 2.10 built.

Oh, yes, try to use http://badgerports.org for mono.

Mono with Anonymous + Linq + Debugs

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SQLite in Java

Small and portable databases are great in sense of reliability, portability and ease of use once created.

As many people use java, I’ve tried to investigate how easy is to create a simple java&sqlite application. After the stackOverflow)) it took just few minutes:

1. http://www.zentus.com/sqlitejdbc/ this jdbc driver has the sqlite embedded for any platform already - great choice for everyone except enterprise.

2. Source is here - with some addions:

import java.sql.*;
public class Main {

/**
* @param args
* @throws Exception
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");
Connection conn =
DriverManager …

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MSI Installer couldn’t start x64

Hi there,

For the past month, I have been trying to install the 64bit edition of Itunes onto my mom’s new computer. She has Vista Home premium 64bit edition. Everytime we tried to install itunes we would receive this error:

“The Windows installer service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running windows in safe mode, or if windows installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance”

Actually, everytime we tried to install any 64bit program we would receive this same error. I searched high and low and tried countless solutions. Unregistering and …

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Network discovery on a Windows Server 2008 R2

In order to enable the Network Discovery on a domain make sure the following services are enabled and running:

1. DNS Client
2. Function Discovery Resource Publication
3. SSDP Discovery
4. UPnP Discovery

What is network discovery? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-network-discovery

Network discovery requires that the DNS Client, Function Discovery Resource Publication, SSDP Discovery, and UPnP Device Host services are started, that network discovery is allowed to communicate through Windows Firewall, and that other firewalls are not interfering with network discovery. If some but not all of these are true, the network discovery state will be shown as Custom [Microsoft …

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