I had a server with a manual installation (local compilation -> ./configure && make; make install) of Ruby v1.9.2 and I needed to upgrade this to v1.9.3 – How did I do this? Technically I didn’t… it worked out to be too much hassle long term to upgrade the manual installation on a production… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Linux
Upgrading Ubuntu to 11.10
It seems the normally so reliable Ubuntu linux based operating system is becoming more and more unstable, looks nice but I have had a few problems recently. One such problem being the recently released upgrade to 11.10 which brings in quite a few changes, both with the Unity GUI and backend stuff including kernel version… Read more »
Install VMware Server 2 on Ubutu 11.04 with 2.6.38 kernel
Skip to instructions Update: Due to more bugs found with VMware Server and the unlikely event that they will be resolved I have since switched to VMware Player on Ubuntu. Instructions here for installing Server are still valid at the time of writing this (June 2011). Recently, to my mistake, I saw Ubuntu 11.04 was… Read more »
How to attach USB devices on Ubuntu to VMs
If you are running a VMware product on Ubuntu (or another Linux host I suspect) then you may encounter a problem when trying to mount/attach a USB device plugged into your host, to one of your virtual machines. The error message I was getting was “Remote USB device error: Remote device disconnected: an error occured… Read more »
How to start VMware Remote console plug-in on Ubuntu
Have just installed VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 10 and the Remote console plug-in doesn’t work. VMware Server 2 is all web-based which is great as you dont need to install much but to get to the console screen of your VMs you need a browser plug-in which should download and start automatically but… Read more »
How to recover data on Lacie storage device
A few years ago a relative bought the then equivalent of this Lacie network attached storage device and configured RAID1 on the internal drives and we all thought the data was nice and safe; not strictly true (even ignoring the physical factors fire, theft, etc). Recently the whole device failed to power up and seemed… Read more »
device eth0 has different mac address message on CentOS
Just updated CentOS to latest 5.5 and after reboot I could not bring eth0 up – showed error: device eth0 has different mac address, ignoring. vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 add a # infront of the hardware address write and quit ifup eth0
Ubuntu
I have recently got quite frustrated with the new (and older) Ubuntu and trying to get things working with it. I have aquired a new PC and not wanting to pay Microsoft Tax I thought I would give Ubuntu 7.10 a go as I have used it before and thought it an extremely useful OS…. Read more »
