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VM’s on Ubuntu 9.0 slow

Update: My logs were filling up with CPU temp warnings. Cracked the case and found that the the old P4 CPU heat sink was completely clogged with lint causing temps over 75deg C. Some judicious vacuuming and shortly after the CPU temp was in the mid 50's. Performance...

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Sweet Home 3D

Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn't using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a...

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Java on Chromium Browser Ubuntu 9.04

Note: This works on Ubuntu 10.10 also This worked for me: # you may need to install the sun/oracle java first me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre # if you have only just installed then locate won't work use find instead me@mybox:~$ find /usr/lib/jvm -name...

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Symantec Endpoint Protection SyLinkReplacer

Just a note to self. The Symantec Endpoint Protection SyLinkReplacer (a utility used to rehome clients) doesn't seem to work if your target client has a non-standard windows directory. e.g. all my clients with c:\windows as the %WINDIR% worked fine. But anything with...

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