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QCAD 3.0.0 on Fedora 18

This is what I did to get QCAD Professional 3.0 running on Fedora 18 I don't know exactly which package or step fixed it so I'm including everything. It may or may not help you. Just tried to run QCAD and got this error: ./qcad ./qcad: line 38: 4338 Segmentation fault...

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btrfs – still unstable so best to pass

Just installed Fedora 18 on physical hardware and selected btrfs. Did the following on a 1TB volume: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=6144 rm -rf test The rm process went to 90%+ CPU and took 2 minutes to delete the 6GB file. Write performance for dd was OK at...

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VMWare Workstation 9 on Fedora 18

From here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/432151?tstart=0 yum install kernel-* # split for readability and modified for # portability across kernel version upgrades cp /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h \ /lib/modules/`uname...

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VMWare vSphere 5.1 Install Configure Manage

It's Friday night and I've just finished 5 days of VMWare vSphere training. I haven't done too many instructor lead training sessions during my years in IT. Most of the time it's been home and self study followed by certification exams. But I must say I was pleasantly...

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VMWare vSphere vCenter Learning

Certification Flowchart http://www.vmwarelearningpaths.com Documentation http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html  Hardware & Software Compatibility http://www.vmware.com/resources/guides.html Hardware for home and/or Lab you can...

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