I’ve found more and more people are switching to Virtualbox these days and I keep running into the same question. “How can I convert my VMware images to Virtualbox images?” Well, breath easy because it is possible and not very difficult! There are two methods that I am aware of that will allow you to… Read More »
I’m running a slave DNS server on the machine that runs this website. It is one of three DNS servers (one master, two slaves) that I have running for my multiple domains. I recently noticed from my Logwatch output that it was having issues with IPv6 lookups and these were causing timeouts and putting extra… Read More »
I only have just a minute for this post, but I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks that I’d really like a project to contribute to. After putting some thought into it I realized I liked the idea of contributing to something upstream, vs to a distribution specifically. I also really enjoy GNOME and… Read More »
I setup the new office printer here on my laptop this morning and I had all kinds of trouble getting it to work with the system-config-printer graphical utility that I usually love so much. As part of my troubleshooting I thought I’d try the web interface, which worked great! That gave me the idea of… Read More »
WIN goes to nixternal for pointing out a fix regarding the VirtualBox guest additions installation on Ubuntu 9.04. Just the other day I installed the latest Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” alpha 6 release and then installed guest additions on the virtual machine. At that point things went downhill. I was no longer able to get a… Read More »
I just wanted to add my two-cents regarding the new GNOME release, 2.26. I have been a GNOME fan for nearly as long as I can remember and I’m really happy to see another solid and on-time release. Remember, you can look forward to all the new GNOME features in the upcoming Ubuntu release, due… Read More »
Thanks to some quick feedback and troubleshooting from the OpenID WP plugin developer I’ve got things functioning again. It seems we turned up a few issues that will still need addressing (primarily regarding my use of Lighttpd vs the more standard Apache), but we have things functional again. Big thanks to Will for his help. … Read More »
Hopping on the current meme bandwagon here is a list of the things my daughter loves to do: Read Books (Curious George, ftw!) Climb the Stairs Tickling Tinkerbell Watching everything outside (birds, cars, dogs, people, etc) Bathtime For those that have been long time readers, you might remember the announcement a year ago of her… Read More »
If you’ve ever played with Virtualization products you’ve very likely tried out VMware Server. With its good support of hardware and software platforms, plus the fact that it is a free download from the VMware website, it is a very commonly used application. What if you’ve decided to move on to other Virtualization products, such… Read More »
I’ve been having issues with the OpenID plugin for WordPress, as many of you have noticed and commented. Until I’m able to come up with a solution I’m simply going to disable the plugin. If anyone has any tips or solutions on getting it to work reliably on WordPress please let me know.