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Disable Ubuntu/Gnome PC speaker beeper emulation

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I recently installed Ubuntu 9.4 onto my fairly new Dell XPS laptop. Everything has been fine until I encountered one of the more annoying things I find about Linux, its sound and audio set-up. The operating system depends on multiple sound interfaces that essentially compete to do the same functions. It reminded me of PC audio back in my youth under MS-DOS.

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Railo on Linux CFEXECUTE bug

I stumbled upon this bug today that drove me nuts trying to figure out what was wrong. I was using the Linux file program within the Railo <CFEXECUTE /> tag to extract MIME type data from a large collection of files, so it could be inserted into a database. The problem was Railo kept on getting stuck in a prolonged loop. After much troubleshooting I realised the affected files all contained spaces within their file names.

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Install Railo

I created this tutorial mainly for ColdFusion and CFML developers who create applications and need to test those applications on a wide variety of CFML platforms. Railo in a virtual Ubuntu Server allows you to test and develop on a Linux platform while also checking for Railo CFML compatibility. As an added bonus, because we will be setting up a barebones, virtualised server with no graphical user interface, the resources used on your host machine will be much lower.

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Install Open BlueDragon

I created this tutorial mainly for ColdFusion and CFML developers who create applications and need to test those applications on a wide variety of CFML platforms. Open BlueDragon in a virtual Ubuntu Server allows you to test and develop on a Linux platform while also checking for BlueDragon compatibility. As an added bonus, because we will be setting up a barebones, virtualised server with no graphical user interface, the resources used on your host machine will be much lower.

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