reedburner

I’ve just spent about an hour trying to install the new NetBeans 6.1 Beta on my Ubuntu machine and kept getting this message in the terminal and then a bank installer screen:

Running the installer wizard…
/usr/share/themes/Human/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:71: Engine “ubuntulooks” is unsupported, ignoring…

Now you might assume that this is a problem with Ubuntu’s native look and feel not being supported or maybe some kind of java version problem. I did, and so spend some time making sure I had the latest jdk and  then tried to pass a java platform argument into the install script all to no avail.

It turns out to be a problem with java and compiz. Turn the Visual Effects settings to none in System>Preferences>Apperance and the installer runs as it should.

Just uploaded a new PHP script to our web server and got this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/xxx/httpdocs/xxx on line 37

The new file is PHP5, the web server is running PHP4.xx.

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