Linux
Centos recently published v6.2. Out of the box is Firefox 3.x and no Google Chrome installed. Steps to install Google Chrome 16 (as root) Steps to install Firefox 9 (as before as root). To install the Virtual box Guest Additions: yum update yum install gcc yum install kernel-devel Mount Guest Additions iso image Run [...]
Continue reading about Centos 6.2 with Firefox 9 and Google Chrome 16
Canon provide Debian Packages to install the driver under ubuntu for download. Offical supported is only the previous version 10.04 of ubuntu. Extracting the zip file you will find under <language>/32-bit_Driver/Debian the deb packages. First thing to install is cndrvcups-common_2.20-l_i386.deb with dpkg -i <deb file>. The problem is that ubuntu 11.04 doesn’t contain the required [...]
I have successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 on my Samsung NC10 with dual boot side by side to windows XP Home. The installation process is very smart and allow you to import settings like desktop background from the installed windows xp home. Printer configuration was a bit complicated. The first thing is to change [...]
Continue reading about Printing via SMB from Ubuntu 10.04 to Windows 7
The default behavior of the tomcat6 server installed from the ubuntu repository is to forbid any read operation of System.getProperty(). I used tomcat6 as deployment target for the hudson builds on the same machine. AspectJ is used in a sample Spring 3 REST application. Tomcat6 logs (catalina-…log) shows the following exception Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access [...]
A beta version of Chrome OS is available as VMX/VMDK image for vmware or virtualbox and live cd. Chrome OS is a OpenSuSe based operating system around the Google Chrome browser. Steps to test VM image of chrome os beta Download VMDK image Extract tar.gz File to standard folder of vmware Start vmware server Choose [...]
Continue reading about Chrome OS 0.4.237 beta under vmware server 2.x