Problem upgrading VMware Tools (because of JIT-Debugger) solved
May 26, 2009
After resurrecting an old VMware installation (I started with the first freely available version of VMware.. version 1) and upgrading successfully (see this post), I was not able to update Vmware Tools within my guest OS (Windows XP SP3).
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Ubuntu 9.04 with VMware-server-2.0.1-156745
May 26, 2009
I have used VMware for some years. There are many alternatives. I won’t get into that ;-)
I always download the tar.gz file from VMware directly.
After unpacking the file and running the install script I encountered the problem vsock (German UbuntuWiki page).
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Maven2 Heap Overflow in JUnit test cases: Howto increase memory
May 22, 2009
For the past few days I was wondering why Maven’s install gave me a Heap Overflow exception on JUnit tests on some of my machines. I tried increasing the memory by using the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS, by passing the option “-Xmx512m” to the JVM through Eclipse and from the command line.
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Creating and applying a patch file
May 21, 2009
This is a simple example shell script demonstrating how to apply a patch file.
#!/bin/sh # # Description: Simple demo of creating and # applying a patch file. # # Author: draptik # ## TODO: Make sure you don't have a directory by ## this name DEMODIR="$HOME/tmp/diff-patch-demo-draptik" ORIGDIR="$DEMODIR/original-stuff" APPLYDIR="$DEMODIR/patch-usage" # ## Cleanup before use rm -rf "$DEMODIR" mkdir "$DEMODIR" cd "$DEMODIR" # ## Create directories mkdir $ORIGDIR mkdir $APPLYDIR # ## Switch directory cd $ORIGDIR # ## Create original file (the file you want to patch) ORIGCODE="mycode.
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From 8.04 LTS to Jaunty Jackalone (Ubuntu 9.04): Software
Apr 28, 2009
The upgrade from the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS version to 9.04 (codename “Jaunty Jackalone” = JJ) was very smooth. It did NOT screw up the X-Server, SMB, Cups, NFS, SSH, USB, etc.
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