Category: Debian

Installing NX Server Free Edition: Workaround for .ssh/config permissions error

In the past 24 hours, I installed NX Free Edition on two Linux machines - one RHEL 4 and one Ubuntu and on both, the installation failed with this message in /usr/NX/var/log/install: NX> 700 WARNING: Error when trying to connect...

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Ubuntu 6.10 on my PowerBook

My PowerBook has been continually crashing in OS X. As a last ditch attempt at salvaging it (or proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hardware is bad), I'm running the PowerPC version of Ubuntu on it....

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Coaxing VMware Player to work on Ubuntu Edgy

I thought a simple sudo apt-get install vmware-player would do the trick. Well, it looked good for a while - it downloaded the package and its dependencies and went through the license agreement and the configuration and even...

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Xen and the Art of Network Maintenance

One of the nice things about Ubuntu Edgy Eft, is that there are packages available that make setting up Xen super easy. Following the steps at the XenOnEdgy page at the Ubuntu Wiki, I quickly had an Edgy virtual machine (or a...

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Ubuntu: Upgrading to Edgy Eft

I'm upgrading my Ubuntu box at home from Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft. The process thus far has been long and not without its hitches. The install has stopped a few times to ask me about config files and it died twice - once when a...

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iFolder: no, Samba: yes

Last night, Nicole needed to back up some important work documents on her Windows laptop. This seemed like a good time to look into iFolder, but I quickly noticed that they don't offer .deb packages and the instructions for...

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ie4slinux

ie4slinux, originally uploaded by msabramo. Screenshot of IE6 running on my Ubuntu desktop via the wonders of Wine and IEs4Linux I remember using Wine back in the days when all you could use it for was Notepad. It's come a long...