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Nasty Bug – Ubuntu 10.04 on VMWare Fusion OSX
Came across a nasty little bug when I installed the latest Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) into a virtual machine using VMWare Fusion 3.02 on my OSX box. This was a fresh install and the install itself went smooth, the problem occured when the initial login screen appeared. Although my mouse worked just fine and I was able to click on the user to log in, I wasn’t able to type anything. My keyboard was completely unusable within the virtual machine. I was not able to type any input via the keyboard.
[Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!
Fixed this Nagios error on my host
Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!
Sony Electronics Creates Open Source Development Community
Last week Sony open the doors to a new web site, as well as a new approach for the organization, called Sony Developer . Sony Developer is meant to become a hub for Open Source development efforts for Sony Electronic products. Currently, Sony has enabled the community for “SNAP” which is an application framework for consumer [...]
Open Source, Open World
Came across this great graph outlining some interesting facts around Open Source. Original article was called "Should Open Source Be An Enemy Of The State?" and is itself a good article discussing some of the paradox around recent suggestion made is US policies and Open Source. Posted via email from shocm
My First Linux Servers at Work – 2002
via flickr.com Buddy of mine posted a video he had of me when I first worked for Sony as a consultant. Took this video right before I was leaving the gig, sometime in 2004 2002, and we were walking through one of our data centers. Of course the one proud points of achievement I wanted [...]
Sony Pictures Imageworks Releases Open Source Shading Language (OSL) to Development Community
CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award-winning visual effects and digital character animation unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, released the Alpha version of its source code for OSL, its Open Shading Language, it was announced today by Rob Bredow, Chief Technology Officer of Sony Pictures Imageworks.OSL is a fundamentally [...]
iPhone Set Up (with power) on my Motorcycle
I knew when I bought my Yamaha V-Star motorcycle, I wanted to figure out a way to tie my iPhone into it in such a manner where it was functional. It seemed like a perfect device for motorcycle riding. Before I go much further let me just say, “Always ride Safe”. I honestly believe that [...]
Problems getting Pidgin to connect to Yahoo Messenger
Update: @nanderoo on Twitter informed me the latest release of Pidgin addressed the Yahoo issue and in fact if you go to the Pidgin site there is a message “Yahoo issues are fixed in 2.5.8.” I’ll keep my post up for future reference but it doesn’t look like its needed anymore. Have had a couple [...]
Government, Open Source, and Saving the World
Imagine if the Declaration of Independence was written in “Word 1776.” What are the odds that we’d be able to open that original document today? Great quote by David Egts, Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat, Inc., in a interview on the WashingtonPost.com web site Viewpoint. He was highlighting the importance of not only Open [...]
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