Friday, November 12, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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 [...]
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
My list of favorite Firefox plugins.