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Install Virtual Box Additions on Fedora 14

I have been using Fedora 14 as my primary work desktop for a while. I like it a lot for many reasons and one of them that it easily runs as a virtual machine. Oracle Virtual Box version 4 has been my choice for running desktop virtual machines because it is fast, robust, simple and [...]

How to run Java samples from VMware SDK on Ubuntu 10.04

There are subtle differences in all Linux platforms and when I got to run VMware SDK Java samples on Ubuntu 10.04 I found there is something that is worth to share in addition to my first post about it. First of all, there are very convenient “default” packages for JRE and JDK that have openjdk-6-jre [...]

HowTo: Install New ALSA Driver

During initial installation of Ubuntu 10.04 it detected my audio chip (integrated with my Gigabyte motherboard) without any problems, but after a couple of hibernations or for some other reason it lost it: aplay -l no soundcard found I actually was surprised it found it at the first place as on any platform this kind [...]

How to run Java samples from VMware SDK

VMware SDK a.k.a. vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0 comes with Java and C# samples. This is what it took me to get them running on Ubuntu 8.10. 1. Download the SDK from vmware.com into a separate directory: > mkdir vi-sdk-4.0.0-161137 2. Install Java and Axis: > apt-get install sun-java5-bin sun-java5-demo sun-java5-doc \ sun-java5-fonts sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-jre [...]

Add Yourself to Sudoers

Add your user name to sudo

Anti-aliased Fonts in Emacs

How to build Emacs with anti-aliased fonts

My Firefox Plugins

My list of favorite Firefox plugins.

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