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Linux Starter Pack: The Beginners Guide to All Things Open Source

By kramfs, on June 14th, 2009

Are you new to the wonderful world of Linux? Or are you looking for an easy way to get started? We’ll you’re lucky since TuxRadar made a complete 130-page Linux Starter Pack to get grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months.
 
According to TuxRadar, a sister site of the popular UK-based [...]

June 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Linux, Open Source | Leave a comment

Monitoring UNIX Application Performance

By kramfs, on April 30th, 2009

Application Monitoring is a very important aspect of a project. Unfortunately, not much attention is being is paid to develop an effective monitoring while the project is not live. Once the project is live, the lack of proper monitoring factors in terms of downtime when the support person is not aware if application [...]

April 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Linux, Open Source | One comment

VMWare Server 2: Unable to build the vsock module

By theditor, on March 28th, 2009

If you encounter the following error after installing VMWare Server 2.0 RCx to Ubuntu:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb’
CC [M] /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
In file included from /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:92:
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:64: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:260: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In function [...]

March 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Linux, Open Source, Virtualization | 15 comments

How to play .asx file or stream mms in ubuntu

By kramfs, on March 28th, 2009

I opted to install Ubuntu 8.04 a.k.a Hardy Heron from scratch instead of upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 since I heavily customized my previous installation and I wanted to prevent conflicts.
Since my home directory is on a separate partition, I copied a few config from /etc which I think are important and off I go reformatted [...]

March 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Linux, Open Source | 2 comments

Panasonic using Open Source Software (OSS) on its Viera Series LCD TV

By kramfs, on March 18th, 2009

We recently bought a TV during the last IT show, a Panasonic Vierra LCD HDTV. Not the latest model but good enough for our needs, at least it has 100hz IPS panel. During my exploration of its menus, I stumbled upon this:

yes, that is a GNU L/GPL license.
Apparently, Panasonic is using AM [...]

March 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Linux, Open Source, Technology | One comment