Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:hW&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World
Press the Enter or Return key and - presto! - you should see the following image:
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Running vmware-config-tools.pl script on a guest CentOS 5.1 virtual machine in a VMWare Server 1.0.5 environment will not find the proper kernel modules, so it will prompt you to compile the modules.
To do this you need a compiling environment (namely gcc) and the C kernel headers installed.
If your machine is ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Short article about how to enable a Debian Etch (stable version at moment of writing) to have access in read/write to NTFS filesystems.
Since there is not package available in standard Etch repositories, packages needs to be retrieved and installed by "Etch Backports" repositories as follows:
wget http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.7.1-2~bpo40+1_i386.deb
wget http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.7.1-2~bpo40+1_i386.deb
wget http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/libntfs-3g2_1.516-1~bpo.1_i386.deb
wget ...
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