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You need to install php5-mysql.

And then don’t forget to restart Apache. Just reloading won’t work.

For when you need to resize the partition you usually work in

GParted LiveCD

And for when you’ve muffed up your grub installation, and can’t work out how to use grub-install

Super Grub Disk

• The obvious cause of this is that the settings.py doesn’t have the directory containing blah listed in INSTALLED_APPS.
• A less obvious cause: you’ll also get this error if the directory doesn’t contain a file __init__.py.

The Audacity documentation isn’t exactly clear on this… Trial and error led me to the right answer - copy the plug-ins directory from the installation .dmg to Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS i.e. the same directory as the executable.

From http ://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207847,

$ sudo aptitude install x-window-system-core gnome-core gdm firefox synaptic xubuntu-system-tools gnome-app-install

/usr/bin/ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit load command 20 unknown cmd field

You get this if you’ve upgraded the version of OSX without upgrading the Developer Tools (the Xcode tools).

echo -n “myvar=${myvar:-notset}”

If myvar is null or unset then it will be set to “notset”.

you’ve got to resize the parent e.g.

grid->GetParent()->Layout();
and then to be sure, run Layout on the top window

Windows XP doesn’t provide Fdisk, but I’ve done an equivalent operation to FDISK /MBR like this:

Configured the Recovery console for automatic administrator login - this was important because there seems to be a bug which requires an admin password to be entered, even when the system doesn’t have one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312149/Then boot up from the Windows XP setup CD, and I chose the ‘R’ Recovery option.

Once in, I ran FIXMBR.

And the PC boots again…