The scribble pad of doom

I’m a bit frustrated that Canonical decided to use OpenJDK, even though OpenJDK still seem to have issues with some software. In my case I was trying to run PyCharm a popular Python IDE, but it wasn’t rendering properly. Lets tell Ubuntu to use Sun JDK instead:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick partner"
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

Until the next Ubuntu upgrade. :)

If you are inputting the SSH password in the keyring password box when connecting to a server and the input box displays:

Enter passphrase for key as [user] on [server]

It means that it’s asking for a ssh-key passphrase rather than the servers ssh password. If you choose to input nothing it instead gives you the option for the servers ssh password that reads:

Enter password for ssh as [user] on [server]