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  • 2011-02-22
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RHEL 5 + Unity

See my previous post for how to install it. A couple of days later and the time is still in synch. When I logged on there was a pop-up saying there were some updates. Put in root password and you get to see which are updates, the ones with a …

  • 2011-02-21
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) in VMWare Workstation

Test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Download: Sign up for an evaulation on https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ rhel-server-5.6-x86_64-disc1.iso VMWare Workstation does find this in "easy install". Not doing that this time. 20GBdisk (default) and 1552MB RAM (default 1024MB) install in either graphical or text mode, going …

  • 2011-02-20
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PS3 - yes or no?

As I will soon be getting some income again, we thought this might be a good time to get a video game console. We do like the look of PS3 (Gran Turismo 5, NHL, etc). A bit pricey though. And then there's also all this negative news I keep on …

  • 2011-02-18
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Transparent PuTTY in Windows 7

PuTTY is a terminal client, it does telnet, raw, serial, ssh, rlogin. I've only ever used telnet, raw, serial and ssh. The normal client can be downloaded from http://www.putty.nl But, maybe you want to make PuTTY prettier? Like this?: putty pretty Well, there are a couple of …

  • 2011-02-11
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Install Drupal 7 in Debian 6

Time for another go! Drupal is .. a pretty famous and widely used CMS out there - so here we go -> 1. Get sudo configured on debian. Sucks to have to log on as root all the time when installing apps etc. 2. Download and untar drupal 7 3. Read INSTALL.TXT …

  • 2011-02-10
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Ubuntu 10.10 + VMWare + Irssi

How small VM can you make if you are only going to use it to run Irssi in a screen? OS: Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Virtual Kernel Hypervisor: VMWare Workstation Disk - no logs - 1.10GB is what my previous took, with samba, so probably less but 1.1 should be …

  • 2011-02-08
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File share from Ubuntu 10.10 with Windows 7 Client

Figured I would give this a shot and see how this is done in Linux. Overview 1x Ubuntu 10.10 VM in VMWare Workstation. Installed with virtual kernel. 1x Windows 7 VM. All updates. Not going to go through the installations in this post, just the domain/LDAP part. See …

  • 2011-02-07
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Ubuntu 10.10 Minimal Virtual Kernel + VMWare Workstation

To install Ubuntu 10.10 with a virtual kernel instead of the normal one = good, less stuff installed that you may not need. When setting up the install, do not use the easy install. Chose to install an OS later. Set up bridged/nat depending on which one you want …

  • 2011-02-05
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EyeOS - Cloud Desktop in your browser - Part 2

After my first comment ever by Adrian from the eyeOS forum I will now try this again and try not to install eyeOS wrongly by following a guide! 1/ Because I also tried to install cactii on the same VM the other day - and after that I saw some nasty …

  • 2011-02-04
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Sharepoint - Part 3

The previous posts: Part 1 - installing Sharepoint 2010 Foundation. Part 2 - basic features in the web interface. I said I was going to look into the RSS updates, how to manually edit the database and look into the underlying structure of the Sharepoint. But, only went through the last of …