Ubuntu

First of all I didn’t fall of the face of the planet. I’ve just been really busy with work, travelling a lot. After upgrading my kernel to 2.6.27 as part of the Ubuntu Intrepid test cycle I’ve sort of given up on VMware Workstation, considering switching to VirtualBox or kvm. Luckily it caught my attention that VMware had released Workstation version 6.5. I installed it and lo and behold! It’s working out of the box with kernel 2.6.27. The installer also warns and exits if kvm is active.

Update 27-02-09: After upgrading to Jaunty Jackalope (kernel 2.6.28) the multimedia keys are now mapped correctly and can be assigned to shortcuts in Xfwm. I have recently switched my primary desktop environment from Openbox to XFCE and suddenly found that the volume keys on my T61 didn’t work like they used to (in both GNOME and in Openbox (running gnome-settings-daemon)) they just worked. In XFCE, not so much – even though I had at some point configured xmodmap to map the keys. ...

One problem I run into every time I upgrade Python or install a new Ubuntu computer is this (caused by me running locale en_DK) raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename ValueError: unknown locale: en_DK I am not an Python expert (not even remotely) so I used some time looking for some sort of fix for this problem. Open the file /usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py and find the line containing en_gb (around line 760) and then add this above: ...

Update 01-11-08: VMware Workstation 6.5 is out and seems to have done away with the need for patching the installation After upgradering my workstation to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) I have run into the same problem as always with VMware Workstation. It will not compile against the installed kernel (in this case 2.6.26). This problem is not isolated to Ubuntu but affects all distributions using a 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernel (from what I gather). The fix for 6.0.3 and kernel 2.6.24 does not work. ...

VMware released VMware Workstation 6.0.4 almost a month ago and reading the release notes I had high hopes On Ubuntu 8.04 hosts (which use kernel 2.6.24), when you install VMware Workstation, the vmnet module does not build. (bug 236605) and it certainly does compile. But… After installing it, when one tries to fire up the first virtual machine Workstation croaks with this message I’ve tried some of the vmware-any-any patches from vmkernelnewbies but they all broke the vmblock module. ...

So, Ubuntu screwed me over fracked up my profile when they decided to change the default browser in Hardy (to Firefox 3.0). After much sorrow and dispair (where I accidently started Firefox 3 a couple of times and my trick for restoring the addons didn’t work. The first time I didn’t have a backup of my profile) I decided the time had come to take the plunge and switch to Firefox 3. ...

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I just got my Sonofon Mobile Broadband package and was eager to see if it would work with my Linux machine. The modem is marked as an Option Icon 225 HSDPA and is by default detected as an USB storage device (which holds the Windows drivers). Getting the modem to work in Linux is done by these three components USB_Modeswitch HSO kernel module HSOConnect Start by downloading the three pieces of software (versions below will vary) ...

For some reason the sun-java6-jre (or whatever Java you have installed) package in Hardy does not install it self as a plugin for Firefox-2 Perhaps there is a more elegant fix to this problem but I simply did $ cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ $ sudo ln -sf /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so . iceweasel-javaplugin can be controlled by update-alternatives

The Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (codename Hardy Herron), yay! I have been running Hardy since somewhere around Tribe 2 on my primary workstation and besides some problems with VMware Workstation it has been a smooth ride. I run Openbox as my desktop environment so I have noticed any real differences in that department but it seems that RANDR works better now allowing me to just hibernate the computer (I use an external screen at work) instead of having to reboot it. ...