2 days after my previous post about installing VmWare Server 1.0.3 from Canonical’s repository, VmWare released version 1.0.4. I tried using its built-in install script on a vanilla Ubuntu Server 7.04 (a.k.a Feisty Fawn) and it worked flawlessly. Aside from certain libraries which it needs to compile the vmmon and vmnet kernel modules (the installation [...]
If you are going to install VmWare server (a great and free server virtualization product from VmWare) on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) and you’ve followed this post showing how to do it using Canonical’s commercial repository, make sure to read this post at the Ubuntu Community Docs. Basically, if you encounter authentication problems at the [...]
I own a Nokia E61 phone which I’m very happy with (leave aside the PC Suite backup problem my wife had when she upgraded to an E61 as well). Even though I’m an Israeli I use its English interface because it’s less buggy and because most of the things I do with the phone (Emails [...]
I got the following annoying little error after I tried to upgrade to a newer mod_python on my Gentoo Linux box: libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration It seems that the main problem was due to the fact that I’ve switched to GCC 4.1.1 and when compiling mod_python, the compilation uses libtool that is [...]
When I started to think about migrating from Blogger to my own WordPress blog running on my own server I started to look at migration options. It seems that since I already migrated to the new blogger system (which is out of beta now), the current import options from Blogger available in the latest WordPress [...]
I use ZoneAlarm Security Suite on my laptop (yes, it’s running Windows…) since its a cheap and nice complete suite that has a firewall, an anti-virus and anti-spyware software plus a lot of other stuff I rarely use (IM Security and the likes). I have it for about a year and a couple of months [...]
Zoundry released a new version of their Blog Writer product. Some of the more prominent features added (which a lot of users including me asked for) are: XHTML Editor – You can now see and edit the generated XHTML Spell Checker – No more copying and pasting stuff to another spell checker :-) Check out [...]
Google Talk stored all of your custom messages that you have entered in a file in your user profile directory. The file is located at “%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\status” Inside you will find a file named in the format [userid]-history.txt. So if your Gmail account is John.Dow@gmail.com the filename will be john.dow_gmail.com-history.txt (besides, there is [...]
If you every wondered how to disable Google Talk’s auto update feature, I found an easy way of doing this which, at least for now, seems to work. NOTE: Be sure to backup the registry entries before using the registry’s Export feature when standing on the Google Talk AutoUpdate key. Close Google Talk Open the [...]