whenever Linux upgrades, the VMWare becomes unusable for a month or two until VMWare catches up. To run, the VMWare Player must be compiled with the current Linux headers. If you upgraded to 11.10 and lost your headers, run the command line sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r), Then download the current (free) version of VMWare Player from VMWare.com and install it.
Tag: Linux
Cloud Services Breached, data stolen, at Epsilon
Individuals supplying their own information on a at-risk foreign server is one thing — and consumers are foolish — but placing customer data or private corporate data “in the cloud” is just asking for Sarbanes-Oxley trouble. Here is how to protect yourself.
Weather irrelevant if you have Linux
Linux rocks after you learn some moves. I upgraded 10 PCs at my lab while I was trapped (snowed in) at home this morning. Pretty much simultaneously. And read the comics. In my pajamas. For Free.
The Real Reason Open Source is Growing: Paranoid Politicians
As a consumer advocate and somewhat self-interested business owner, my evaluation of any circumstance or potential change involves the instinctive question as to how it will affect me, or more succinctly, how it will hurt me and what I can do to protect myself. And so the mechanism that is propelling open-source software into global dominance may not be technical superiority, or freedom, or even an elitist attitude: the driving force may simply be the lust for power and control, or paranoia about what someone else could do, or perhaps just reasonable caution.
October 2010 OS & Browser Use Stats
Statistics: Operating System and Web Browser use April through October 2010