Options Menu won't show in ICS(Ice Cream Sandwich)

I am developing an application in android and decided to code at the options menu, to add some preferences/settings. As I want to see the output of my code, I notice that the options menu isn't showing, no matter how I override the onCreateOptionsMenu(..), and decided to hit google. This link gives the ANSWER.

You must change the targetSdkVersion to <= 10 in the manifest.xml, and run the code again, and successfully the options menu showed.

Access Denied for phpmyadmin in XAMPP 1.8.1 - Ubuntu

I installed the XAMPP 1.8.1 for linux in my ubuntu and ran http://localhost/phpmyadmin, and suddenly it gives an error Access Denied! Really in my localhost? yeah!

The Fix:

1. Navigate to the file "httpd-xampp.conf" mine is "/opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf"
2. Add "Require all granted" to this block of code
   

   #
   
       AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
   
   #
   

3. The result will be
   

   #
   
       AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
       Require all granted
   
   #
   

4. Then restart your lampp
   

   #
   sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart
   #
   

Manual Install Eclipse - Ubuntu

I'm tired of searching in the internet on how to manually install eclipse. I am not using the Ubuntu Software Center to download eclipse because I want the Eclipse Helios to be installed.

1. Download the Eclipse Helios. You can download any package you want. I downloaded the eclipse-jee-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz 
2. Extract and copy it to the /opt directory
   

   
   sudo tar -vxzf eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz -C /opt
   cd /opt
   sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
   sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
   
   

3. You can also change the root:root to user:user
4. Create an executable
   

   sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
   sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
   sudo gedit /usr/bin/eclipse

5. Paste this to gedit and save
   

   #!/bin/sh
   #export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
   export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"
   
   $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*
   

6. Create a shortcut
   

   sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
   

7. Paste to gedit
   

   [Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Name=Eclipse
   Comment=Eclipse IDE
   Exec=eclipse
   Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
   Terminal=false
   Type=Application
   Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
   StartupNotify=true
   

8. And launch Eclipse for the first time
   

   sudo eclipse/eclipse -clean
   

Could not get lock - ubuntu

I encountered some problems when I ran some apt-get in ubuntu then stopping it by pressing ctrl+z, and run some other apt-get command again, then suddenly the CLI throws - Could not get lock . . . . . . etc

I think there are many cases on how you get that "could not get lock..". What I did in mine is, run this in the CLI without the double quotes "killall -9 apt-get" and run apt-get again.

Install OpenJDK 6 on Ubuntu 12.04

1. Open up a terminal
2. type this command without quotes "sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk" and hit enter. Just type y if you want to proceed.
3. After it downloaded all the packages needed, then you're ready to go.
4. To check the Java version
1. Just type without the quotes "java -version" 

If you're really wondering what are the differences between Sun's JDK and OpenJDK, here are some useful links:

1. Stackoverflow 
2. Ask Ubuntu 
3. Exploding Java

Google is your friend.