Four upgrades for the web worker workplace
Saturday, May 31st, 2008According to Web Worker Daily there are four important think for the web workers: another monitor, a good desktop scanner, a single-serve coffee maker and noise-cancelling headphones. The two first options are very specific and will be suit for designer mostly. But coffee and noise cancelling are acceptable for all.
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VMWare and kernel 2.6.24.X
Monday, March 17th, 2008Last week I upgrade my Fedora Core 8 to the latest stable kernel 2.6.24.3-12. As result the compilation of VMWare module vmmon gave that error:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:172: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:176: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] [...]
Upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Since a coming version of LinuxMCE will be based on Kubuntu 7.10 I started thinking about upgrade my home PC. I found this manual explained how to do an upgrade using a package manager. I played a bit with Kubuntu installed under VMware and couldn’t upgrade successful. Adopt manager crashed every time when the text [...]
Proxy definition for APT
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Recently when I started to upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10 using Adopt manager I faced with problem. It doesn’t get proxy setting from the system. To solve that a following line should be added into file /etc/apt/apt.conf (you have to create it if it doesn’t exist):
Acquire::http::Proxy “http://user:password@proxy_URL:proxy_Port”;
User name and password can be omitted if [...]
How To Name Your Company
Saturday, February 17th, 2007Definitely, it’s difficult to find an appropriate name for the new company:
As the online marketplace becomes increasingly cluttered it is more important than ever to be memorable and to stand out. The name of your company is a critical factor in this.
Here is an brief article where you can find five steps to choose right [...]
Embperl and %ENV
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Recently I faced with problem to incorrect displaying none-latin characters on the HTML page generated by Embperl. This happened because Embperl escapes all output symbols by default. To avid it it’s needed to specify a parameter EMBPERL_OUTPUT_ESC_CHARSET = 0. For web application is works fine because Embperl check %ENV and changes its parameters according [...]
Fedora Core 6 Tips and Tricks
Thursday, January 25th, 2007I’d like to introduce for all who use Linux Fedora this excellent set of Fedora Core 6 Tips and Tricks. I found very useful for me tips about installation of mplayer, Macromedia Flash, IEs4Linux and MS TrueType Fonts. I spent only a few minutes to setup good looking, functional work space.
There is a similar manual [...]