How to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Posted on October 28th, 2009 at 17:36.

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The same script I wrote in order to help users install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 can be used for the latest release from VMware: VMware Server 2.0.2 (build 203138).
In order to install the server, just follow these instructions:

Download your copy of VMware Server (.gz archive) and obtain your license key. Be [...]

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Linus Torvalds and Windows 7

Posted on October 24th, 2009 at 0:09.

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These two pictures will go epic:
Linus has a great sense of humor. Brilliant! Can you imagine Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer doing a similar thing?
via Chris, Patrick

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Enabling arrow keys in VMware Server 2.0.1

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 at 12:57.

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While running Ubuntu 9.10 RC in a virtual machine from a VMware Server instance, I remembered about the arrow keys and others that didn’t work quite well in the VMware Server’s console. The fix is pretty simple: edit the /etc/vmware/config file or the /etc/vmware-server-console/config file and add the following entry at the end:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

Restart [...]

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Happy Birthday, Ubuntu!

Posted on October 20th, 2009 at 10:22.

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Today Ubuntu celebrates its 5th birthday. And it only took them 1 year, until 2005, to become the first shought-after Linux distributuion according to DistroWatch.com. The releases until now were:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) – October 20 2004
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) – April 8 2005
Ubuntu 5.10 (BreezyBadger) – October 12 2005
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) – [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth interview

Posted on October 19th, 2009 at 14:01.

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Golem.de has published a two part interview with Mark Shuttleworth (Wikipedia entry, his blog), the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company that is behind Ubuntu. Some of the questions he tried to answer were:

Where do you see the Linux desktop today?
Does MacOS X offer a better user experience than Linux?
Does KDE do a better job [...]

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Why don’t you switch to Linux?

Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 23:41.

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If you had time to read my blog before you would notice that I mostly write about technical stuff. Since Google indexes my pages, most of the users that arrive here are more or less above average when it comes to computers. Using the Analytics tool provided by Google, I get the following data when [...]

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Ubuntu’s 9.10 improvements

Posted on October 11th, 2009 at 14:12.

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Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is just about the corner, with its programmed launch on October 29th. This release is a special one, preparing the way for the next LTS which is due to appear the next April (Lucid Lynx, 10.04). Lots and lots of features and improvements have been added, the main goal being [...]

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Linux Starter Kit – Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on September 20th, 2009 at 20:29.

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From the middle of July I have started a nice collaboration with OXY PRESS, the company responsible for the Linux Identity magazine series. They have asked me to write some articles for the Linux Starter Kit magazine, regarding Ubuntu 9.04 which I gladly did. I was happy to be able to share my experience with [...]

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Windows 7 review from a Linux user

Posted on September 8th, 2009 at 18:23.

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Starting with August 21st I have installed Windows 7 on my home desktop, right after installing Ubuntu 9.04 with custom packages so that I could obtain the maximum hard disk performance gain for Linux. Being a student at an Automatic Control and Computers Faculty has its advantages, one of them being the MSDN AA membership [...]

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Python and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 26th, 2009 at 18:01.

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If you remember Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux), Tudor has found a better solution to accomplish this using Python. I did argue with him a bit regarding the number of requests made (you can see that in the comments on his blog post) but finally I would agree that his solution was better [...]

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Resetting Windows passwords for every user

Posted on August 17th, 2009 at 22:13.

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I am sure that you all wondered sometime how can a Windows password be broken with physical access to the machine. I know this isn’t quite hacking, but it is a useful thing in many situations:

you have forgotten your administrator password;
a zealous/envious system administrator didn’t want to give you the passwords after he left the [...]

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