Archive for the 'linux' Category

Acer Aspire One resources

I finally took the plunge and bought an Acer Aspire One AOA150-1570 - the Windows version. So far, I’ve done my usual collection of Windows tweaks and have it triple booting into Puppy Linux and Acer’s Linpus. I’m working on documenting all my changes, but in the meantime, here’s a list of links I’ve found [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron & Virtual Box

If you’ve just upgraded to Hardy Heron and found that Virtual Box no longer works it might be because your host’s CD is now called something else. Mine became /dev/scd0 after the upgrade. All I had to do was detach it from the virtual machine and reattach it & everything works fine.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron & VMware Server

If you’ve just upgraded to Hardy Heron and found that VMware Server no longer works, take a look at Installing VMware 6.0.2 and VMware Server on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. You’ll find an explanation of what needs to be changed and, even better, a patched version of vmware-any-any-update115 that’ll make it work!
If you were already running [...]

UnixKit-tiny

UnixKit for Windows is a toolkit of Unixlike programs for Microsoft Windows. Unlike CygWin, it does not require installation. In fact, it leaves absolutely no traces on the host machine when you’re done using it.The -tiny branch presently includes:arc arj bash bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover cat chmod cksum cp csplit cut dd df diff du file [...]