Arggh! Accurev! Your only support for Ubuntu is for Hardy and earlier? What’s up with that? In their defense, Accurev actually runs on 32-bit versions of Lucid… But you’ll find it will die without an error on 64-bit versions of the OS… The only way around it is to install a 32-bit version of Lucid. [...]
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So you’re logged into a server remotely and you have no idea what kind of machine it is… If it’s a Dell, there’s a fairly easy way to get the service tag as long as you have root or administrator access. Here’s how!
We talked last week about how to use VNC with a server that doesn’t have a monitor connected to it.
This week, I’m going to talk about how to get around the fact that you have to be logged into Gnome in order to use VNC.
I’m a Ubuntu fan. And they’ve made it really easy to use VNC (the Linux equivalent of remote desktop) just by choosing System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop. What’s not so easy, however, is when you have a server or desktop that requires X but you don’t have a monitor plugged in to the machine. [...]
HowToForge has a terrific article on how to use the standard Ubuntu installation to create encrypted partitions. Perfect for laptops. Keep in mind, however, that the machine is obviously encrypted using this technique and doesn’t provide plausible deniability should you be asked by law enforcement to decrypt the drive at international borders, etc. [...]
Note! This article originally was written for Gutsy, but works well with Hardy.
Did you miss Part I? Might be best to start there. You can find it here.
So you got your KVM virtual machine up and running with Windows XP. But you ran into a few gotchas. How do you use [...]
Note! This article originally was written for Gutsy, but works well with Hardy.
KVM, or the Kernel Virtual Machine, was recently added to the Linux kernel recently as the “Linus-chosen” open source method for virtualizing operating systems. Why not Xen? While both groups of software are open source, I’ve heard that KVM was chosen [...]