Archive for the 'ubuntu' Category

OS X on Dell D420

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 by r.jimi

After running Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about a month on the my Dell D420, I have decided to give OS X a try.
I started here.
Ended up here.
10.5 was a bust.
10.6 works great!
The process I used was:
1. Get 10.6 disc or disc image.
2. Make an external hard drive version of it.
3. Boot from the D620SLV1 [...]

VMWare Server 2 – Windows 7 – Ext2IFS

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 by r.jimi

I have been using Ext2IFS driver on different windows version starting in XP, then Vista, now Windows 7.
I installed the latest VMWare Server 2 and tried to open up my old VM. Got an error like
VMware Workstation cannot open one of the virtual disks needed by this VM because it is larger than the maximum [...]

jAOLT – FOSS ebay listing software

Sunday, April 5th, 2009 by r.jimi

This software was great! But partly because it is the only one out there. Looking around for something, anything but the web interface on GNU/Linux, I found this.
jAOLT works. In my usage of it so far, I haven’t had a problem. I used it to create about 20 listings in a pretty short amount of [...]