Firstly once your guest is installed update it to the latest kernel and reboot yum update reboot Install development tools (amongst other things gives you gcc, make etc) yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install kernel-devel # I think dkms is important # so the...
Month: December 2014
Shrinking a thin-provisioned VMDK on a datastore with vmkfstools
VMotion to another datastore didn't work: Just trying to shrink an already thin-provisioned Windows XP VM which is using only 10GB of a 127GB C: drive I tried to run defrag, sdelete and then shutdown the VM and vmotion to another datastore with a target disk format of...
Alternative to PDFtk under Fedora 21
I wanted to join multiple pdf files together. I usually have used pdftk but it has been retired. You can get a pdftk source rpm but it depends on gcj and several other packages that have been superseded in Fedora 21. So an alternative is needed... # install...
ATO AUSKey Under Fedora 21
The first question I had was which version of the Oracle Java Development Kit should I install? If you have firefox-34.0-1.fc21.x86_64 installed (note the x86_64) you need to install the x64 version of the Oracle JDK Do not do this: yum localinstall...
Pinterest: Opps! We’re having some trouble talking to <website>. Please try again later!
Just tried to add a Pin to my "Home and Beauty" board on Pinterest and received: Had a look at the image I was trying to pin and its resolution was 2282x2282 pixels...
Upgrade Time – A Few More Days Till Fedora 21
We are only a few days away from the Fedora 21 release. My Upgrade Checklist Backup $HOME, /etc (settings) to external USB drive (Test random files with md5sum to make sure they are OK) Inventory installed applications and settings and make a note of what needs...
QCAD now Supports Complex Line Types
https://plus.google.com/116353478893976991600/posts/aRevgCpC1He I have been looking for an application that will do train tracks over an image... QCAD as of version 3.7.3 now supports an extra series of "complex line types" This is why I continue to purchase the...


