Testing to see if this works. Sometimes installing Ubuntu in a PC without 3D capable video hardware results in a non-bootable system: rather it boots but you can’t see anything, and since the default configuration is that OpenSSH-server is not installed, you can’t shell into it either. You can’t even use CTRL-ALT-F2 to change TTYs…
Category: Technical
Protecting Your Web Site from Loss of Business
The Godaddy DNS outage was caused by internal error, not a hack. We should specify name lookup via more than one DNS company so that if one company is unavailable, the other will still work and access to our web sites will be unaffected by a single point failure.
VMWare Player and Ubuntu
VMWare has a habitual problem with NOT being usable in Ubuntu until several months after a release. I found a fix here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/130937/how-do-i-install-vmware-player-4-0-3. The bottom line is here: I based this on the instructions I found here: vmware player compile issue. To boil it down to the simplest steps: Download this tarball: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vmware802fixlinux320.tar.gz Extract the…
Free Anti-virus for Linux from reliable source
For those who invest in Anti-virus protection for their *ix boxes. Years ago I remember John McAfee, Peter Norton, and Friðrik Skúlason all started their own anti-virus projects and all made anti-virus free to individuals. Over time Peter bought himself a gay bar in New York, John went mostly into high cost corporate products and…
New Project Site
Interesting project site. http://www.clubjameco.com/