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$ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Change:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to
iface eth0 inet static
Below this line enter the following, replacing x where necessary for your network config.
address 192.168.x.x
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.x.0
broadcast 192.168.x.255
gateway 192.168.x.x
Certain characters break XML or need to be escaped in HTML so they are rendered literally and not interpreted themselves as markup. There’s a few predefined character entities that are commonly used:
For other characters though, you sometimes need to use their Unicode encoded value. For example to literally display { and } in a JSP or JSF page (since they are used in EL syntax ${} and #{} ), you can use their unicode values like this:
There’s many unicode ref charts online, here’s one that I’ve used:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF
I’d set a passphrase on an OpenSSH key that I use to connect to a git repo on my local server. It started to get annoying, and more annoying with any other tool that I tried to use with the same key as it’s seems not all tools are setup to handle the prompting for the keyphrase.
Quickest workaround: remove the passphrase with ‘ssh-keygen -p’
– when prompted give the name of the pub/priv keypair (eg id_rsa), give the current keyphrase, and then when prompted for the new keyphrase, just hit return and again to confirm.
Using Cygwin and git on windows, I ran into an issue where git was working fine in a cygwin shell, but I was trying to setup a Jenkins build accessing a git repo, and git from Windows was giving errors like this:
$ git push myremote master
error: cannot spawn c:cygwinbinssh: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork
Running shell commands on Windows in Cygwin this was somewhat misleading, as I wasn’t expecting it to be looking for ‘ssh.exe’.
Turns out my GIT_SSH env var was causing the issue, had to replace this:
GIT_SSH=c:cygwinbinssh
with
GIT_SSH=c:cygwinbinssh.exe
and then all was good.