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How to find and install Epson CX5500 All-In-One Scanner drivers on Ubuntu

To install Epson CX5500 scanner driver in Ubuntu, they have made a utility called "iscan" / "ImageScan! for Linux".

You can download the latest version from some of Epson's global sites (Use the steps towards the end of this article to see how I navigated through their numerous archives).

[SOLVED][PHP PEAR] How to fix the error 'could not extract the package.xml file' and 'Download of "pecl/uploadprogress" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive', when trying to install PECL uploadprogress using PHP PEAR on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

Setting up, upgrading and maintaining a clean and functional Drupal/PHP Development environment is an art, and quite a piece of cake for the skilled sysadmin. But the ever changing versions of OS packages and dependencies can bring up quite some unexpected challenges to a budding developer. Here is the solution to one such error that might eat your brains out.

Almost all usable versions of Drupal - 6, 7 and 8 - use PECL uploadprogress to show file upload progress.
And installing it on previous Ubuntu, PHP versions was as easy as running the following command:

How to upgrade Skype for Linux from version 4.2 to 4.3 without losing any of your old chat log / history

Skype for Linux, when updated to 4.3, from 4.2, brings up a big problem to many of the users who heavily rely on their Skype chat histories for a reason.
And since Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu) has included the update in its repositories, this problem is kind of unavoidable if you want to keep you up-to-date.
And with the now-Microsoft-owned Skype developers threatening that they would soon make the old Skype useless, you are in very much need of this fix to your existing Skype data files.

[SOLVED] How to get the Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY wireless/WLAN/WiFi adapter working on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr or LinuxMint 17 Qiana - (Tested on a Dell Studio 1435 Laptop)

Note: I did this for a friend's Dell Studio 1435 Laptop, while installing the latest LinuxMint 17 Qiana Mate Edition. This should work on Ubuntu / LinuxMint for any machine which has a Broadcom BCM4312 wifi (802.11b/g) adapter.

You can make sure that you have the correct device mentioned here, by typing in the following command in the Terminal:

lspci | grep -i bcm4312

It should show something like this:

How to install/set up an Android Development Environment on Ubuntu (12.04 Precise / 13.04 Raring / 13.10 Saucy) / LinuxMint (13 / 14 / 15 Olivia / 16 Petra), and get started with learning the basics of app development by creating your first app

1. First, follow the steps on the following URL to make your Ubuntu / LinuxMint machine ready for configuration as an Android development rig:
http://antojose.com/content/how-to-install-eclipse-4-3-kepler-eclipse-4-...

2. Then go to developers.android.com,
and from the menu on top, navigate to
Develop > Tools > Developer Tools > Download.

Using squid proxy on Linux to monitor and control internet usage in a network

NOTE: This is just a rough research note for now - I haven't done this myself yet. Will expand once I have experimented more with this. Till then, please use the following info to build upon, and let me know via the Comments box below if you have any quick doubts. Cheers!

[SOLVED] How to Fix on Ubuntu/Debian linux - MySQL/MariaDB: Out of resources when opening file (Errcode: 24)

This is an issue which occurs due to the maximum number of open files allowed for a process (mysql in this case) being very less that what is required - something that happens because you have lots of large tables / a large DB. To fix this, you just have to increase the limits in a few places.

Here is how you do it:

Step 1: Identify the issue
as limit on the max number of open files (1024) for a single process (mysql) by doing these as root user:
ulimit -a | grep open

[SOLVED][HOWTO] How to install Drush via PHP PEAR on your cPanel/WHM shared hosting server account

With SSH enabled, Drush is one of the best command-line tools that a Drupal developer/admin can have.

If you havent heard of Drush, checkout these pages to know more about it, and about how it can help make your life much saner:
https://github.com/drush-ops/drush#description
http://drush.ws/about

Here is how you can install Drush on your cPanel/WHM shared hosting account:

A letter to VisionTek to OpenSource their 82GH 3G USB Modem dialler to support Voice calling, USSD codes and Sending/Receiving SMS on Linux

Device: http://www.visiontek.co.in/3g-2g-wireless-products/82gh.html

Letter:

Developing a Linux Voice Dialler for VisionTek 82GH USB 3G modem

Hello VisionTek,

This is Anto Jose, a Linux developer + OpenSource consultant from Thiruvananthapuram.

As you know, the Linux dialler application that comes with the 82GH 3G USB modem, doesn't support Voice Calling and SMS/USSD facilities that the Windows version offers.

[SOLVED] What to do when you see a missing include file error like "fatal error: something.h: No such file or directory" when you build/compile/install something from source on Ubuntu Linux Server/Desktop

These are some common errors that you might face when you try to build/compile/install something from source on Ubuntu Linux Server/Desktop:

fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory
fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory
fatal error: expat.h: No such file or directory

This would be because of some missing library packages which contain these include files.

The ideal way to deal with these would be:

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