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an added dependency for the vmware-view-client package is preventing installation on debian squeeze (stable) for the latest vmware-view-client 1.4.0 pacakge. trying to install that single dependency results in a majority of the gui being upgraded as well and there isn’t a backports package available for it. i’m still working to see if i can get it working but for now (see the edit below), the packages are available for ubuntu and debian wheezy on i386 and amd64. They have been added to the previous post if you would like to give them a try: ...

if you have been following recent news in the world of vdi and vmware, they recently annouced the release of a linux vmware view 5 client that supports pcoip and that it was available for ubuntu. i was able to find the i386 deb package and it installed without a problem on debian squeeze i386 but i couldn’t find an amd64 package anywhere. not wanting to wait until they eventually released one, i went ahead and repackaged the i386 deb for amd64. it works for both ubuntu and debian from my testing. ...

i’ve come across this problem a number of times when looking at newer firmware for my router running dd-wrt. the upgrade works flawlessly but loopback doesn’t work. i finally decided to see if there was a solution out there and lucky for me, there is. a google search brought me to this bug report. there is also a dd-wrt forum topic on this as well but the solution is pretty simple. just in case the bug report and forum post both disappear, here is the solution: ...

i probably won’t be posting on here for some time as i am planning on dedicating my time working on overclockix in my free time. in case you do not know what overclockix is, it is a customized linux live distro (based on debian) which i am helping to revive. if you would like to contribute to the project in any way, let me know in the project thread @ overclockers.com.

there have been a number of people who are trying to get minecraft working on ubuntu 10.10 and running into java related issues because they install openjdk or another open source java replacement. by default, the repository required to install the ‘sun-java6-jre’ package is disabled. this will walk you through how to enable it and install the latest JRE. sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list search for partner (ctrl + w, type in ‘partner’, hit enter) ...

i recently had a hard drive fail in my server. luckily i was running it in a raid 1 array so all of my data was kept safe. i decided that while i had a hard drive out of service that i might as well take some time to do some upgrading of my storage space. i had been just running two basic raid 1 arrays (each with two 1 TB drives) using mdadm with ext3 for my virtual machines and other assorted storage. while ext3 is a very stable file system, it isn’t know for its speed. while i certainly wasn’t running out of storage space by any means, i thought it to be smarter to upgrade while i had enough space to rearrange things. ...

as i mentioned in my previous blog article, adobe temporarily pulled 64 bit support for the 64 bit plugin. a few days ago (september 15) they released preview 1 of flash player 10.2. if you have followed the instructions in my previous article, upgrading is quite simple. if not, don’t worry, there are only a few extra steps! please remember that this is a beta version so it may not be 100% stable. the method i am using will add a new option to update-alternatives which will allow you to switch between a stable and testing plugin of flash player. this makes it quite simple to change between versions. ...

somewhat recently, adobe has pulled all support for 64 bit flash player on linux. debian has also remove the support from it’s non-free archives so the flashplugin-nonfree package no longer works properly. i find that gnash and swfdec are pretty lacking and are not compatible with all websites which is a major problem for me. after searching online, i found a 64 bit copy of libflashplayer.so and wanted to install it the debian way using update-alternatives. here are the steps to install it properly: ...

so you already have some songs in your itunes library and you want to make custom ringtones from them but don’t want to pay for them from the itunes store or the ringtone doesn’t have the part of the song you want. if you are looking to do just that, then you’re in luck and all you need to create your own ringtones is itunes itself. the steps are fairly simple. they may work similarly on osx, but i have only tested this on windows. ...

update 10/21/2011 - it appears that this bug has come up again with a number of people who have updated to iOS 5. luckily, the solution is the same as before. i have updated the instructions to help with any changes that iOS 5 added. before you start - this will only work if your photos actually exist on your device but do not show up in in the camera roll. you can verify that photos exist on your device by looking graph at the bottom of iTunes and by checking your device for the actual picture files. if you post comments about having problems but don’t mention that you haven’t verified that your photos are still available on your device, i’m sorry but i won’t be able to help you. ...