Just digging in my desk draw looking for a CDR to burn a 32bit Ubuntu Desktop Edition iso (ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso) to and discovered I didn't have any. But I did discover a DVD+R. So using Brasero (The Gnome ISO Burner Program under Linux (Fedora 15)) I burn't...
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Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT).
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeBSD 8.2. Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT). Looking in the $LOCATION_OF_YOUR_VM/Logs/VBox.log file: 00:00:00.850 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: r0; VRDE Module: unusable because of...
xTuple Postbooks Install on Fedora 15
If you're trying out xTuples Postbooks on F15 64 bit you may need to install some extra libraries because of errors thrown during install: "There has been an error. /opt/xTuple/postgresql/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: [libkrb5.so.3|libaudit.so.0]:...
Gallery 3 on a Dreamhost VPS Works!
So moving to a Virtual Private Server from Dreamhost has fixed the problem I was having with Gallery 3 failing to resize images because of ImageMagick being killed. I can now resize all the photo's in an album and it works as expected. However I did find something...
Chromium Browser on Fedora 15 – No Page Load Bug
A few weeks ago I installed Chromium Browser on my Fedora 15 Workstation. I have noticed some strange behaviour. Problem: Open a shortcut from a favourites menu Page appears to start loading but doesn't display Put cursor in Location field. Press enter and page...
How to check total memory in Linux
Just checking if my Dreamhost VPS has had the memory reduced yet Before: [me@mybox]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2300 97 2202 0 0 12 -/+ buffers/cache: 84 2215 Swap: 0 0 0 After: [me@mybox]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 300...
Another slightly different way to fix Super Large Thumbnails on Gallery 3
I have had problems on my shared hosting account with Gallery 3 having the Imagemagicks convert utility processes terminated, thus not completing resize operations, and therefore leaving thumbnails and resizes at the size of the original image. Of course you can...
Shared Hosting has Limitations
I've had this domain on dreamhost.com's shared hosting for a few years. It's been OK. For the dollar value it's got a lot of features. Linux Shell access (woo hoo!) One click install of a heap of opensource stuff Unlimited Disk space (meaning you can have more than a...
Running VirtualBox Virtual Machines Headless
# get a list of your virtualbox virtual machines [me@mtbox ~]$ vboxmanage list vms "Windows SBS Server 2011 Trial" {d0c766e8-252b-4016-a37f-db60894230eb} "LSMB" {259dea54-ef0a-48c2-b06c-fa164e87abab} "debian-6.0.2.1-amd64" {91b7ca3-2162-470e-aadf-df46046a468c} # start...
FreeNX Server Install & Setup on Fedora 15
Overview: I want to connect from a Windows 7 workstation to a Fedora 15 Computer using FreeNX How I did it On Fedora install FreeNX Server (Note: you already need to have the OpenSSH server installed and working) yum install freenx-server This is all I had to do to...
