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What''s a good solution for fixing character encoding problems for compatibility between ascii and utf-8? The database is postgres and is encoded in utf-8. Once in awhile there will be a compatibility error from strings from a webform. Is there a command to fix this besides using a_string.force_encoding(''utf-8'')? Even this doesn''t seem to always work either.

As I mentioned in the subject, I have installed the latest version of QQ International (beta 3), under wine in ubuntu lucid. It installs without much trouble, however when I run the application, nothing happens. How do I begin troubleshooting this application to see if I can make it work? Or if anyone happens to know of an x64 linux qq client that actually works that would be great too :D

I am looking at setting up ADS authentication for my current samba configuration. I am quite wary of making big changes that I do not understand as there are shares currently setup and I do not want to lose this. I have read through the "how to's" and I am at the point where I want to "Create the computer account" and running the command :- Net ads join -U