Archive for April, 2008
VMWare disk mount under ubuntu linux
22 April 2008I’m running ubuntu linux as my main OS with a windows XP VM for all those things I just have to have windows for (like writing plugins for a must have application). The problem I sometimes have with this is that disk accesss can be terrible from inside the VM, like cleaning up 20 odd […]
Hardy Heron Screen Resolution Problems
17 April 2008Just upgraded my home system to the latest Ubuntu distro and had a bit of a strange problem while fiddling with my xorg.conf. I accidently overwrote the file using dexconf and suddenly my screen resolution options dialog only had 800×600 and 640×480 as the available options. Given that I have 23″ widescreen that is capable […]
VMware and Ubuntu “Hardy Heron” 8.04
14 April 2008I didn’t think it was going to be possible but this guy found a way for me to at least get the server console running so that I can connect to my machine at work!!
Basically the solution was to move vmware versions of libgcc and libpng out of the way
cd /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.org
cd ../libpng12.so.0
mv libpng12.so.0 […]
Visual Studio excluding exceptions
8 April 2008I was having a bit of a problem with Visual Studio and some code that I was working with, the author had used exceptions as a flow control mechanism for a properties object. If the object did not have a value for a given key it would throw an exception which he would then catch […]