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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Accessing further (Windows) Partitions with Portable Ubuntu
Apr 19, 2009
If you’ve followed my blog on how to install Portable Ubuntu to your USB Stick, you might have noticed people asking “how do I access my other Windows partitions by default” or “How do I access partition X?
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First experiences with Portable Ubuntu and Upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10
Apr 13, 2009
There is a new thing called “Portable Ubuntu”. Get it here:
http://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/
It’s about 450MB download and its default size after unpacking is about 2GB.
It promises to be a Linux installation which runs side by side with your MS-Windows desktop.
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Hiking routes in the "Fränkische Schweiz"
Apr 11, 2009
A collection of hiking routes in the Fränkische Schweiz…
http://www.naturerlebnis-fs.de/Tipps/wandern.html
http://fraenkische-schweiz.bayern-online.de/die-region/aktiv/sport/wandern-wanderwege/
http://www.fraenkische-schweiz.com/sport/wandern.html
Pidgin, the multi-plattform, multi-protocol instant messenger
Apr 09, 2009
Pidgin is one of the many multi-protocol instant messengers. And its available for many plattforms (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, etc). Although pidgin supports many protocols out-of-the-box (f. ex. ICQ, AIM, IRC, XMPP/Jabber, Groupwise), new plugins are constantly emerging.
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Fixing Cygwin's GNU Screen program
Apr 09, 2009
After years of ignorance I discovered the wonderful GNU screen program on my GNU/Linux system. Basically screen is a window manager for terminals or terminal sessions. But after installing the Cygwin package on my Windows box I ended up with this error message after trying to invoke screen:
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