salaud speaks

The apprentice asked his master, how do we exit this awful existence? Master said: You must click start to shutdown.

I have VMWare Server 2.0 running on an Ubuntu Intrepid host with a Windows 2003 Server guest OS. The network speed, evidenced by SAMBA/SMB connections, was a crawl compared with other XP guests. I scratched my head for a long time. THE SOLUTION: Change the guest VM “Number of Processors” setting from 2 to 1. Network speed goes back to expected speed.

Create a Table of Authorities using OpenOffice, don’t try doing this with Pages in iWork ‘09 yet.

like indymedia, the alpha-hackers (did I just say that?) need to create an INTENTIONAL community. This intentional community can choose whether to sell out its space or not.

I just implemented NoMachine, referred to also as NX. It basically proxies/forwards X11 sessions, but using a compressed X11 protocol. Apparently, a project to create a scaled down version of X11 across slow links was create a while back, which generated a library that is being used by NoMachine. There is a [...]

I was getting the following error message when trying to get a rails app working ‘Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query:’ It turned out that the mysql gem was not installed properly. I thought I had installed it, but it turns out that because I did not have the libmysqlclient-dev [...]

The Server which is Not a Server is the Server

Micro$haft does not have the best of breed product in any field. It has pretty much the worst in most. It’s really a wonder. I have been supporting their products in one way or another for 20 years. I can honestly say that IBM PC DOS was a much better DOS [...]