Category: Technical

vmware-server setup on feisty

September 28th, 2007
I've been trying to set up vmware-server on feisty and had a problem - trying to install the .deb from canonical was failing with the following message: Can't add port 902 (vmware-authd) to inetd.conf Looking through the vmware-server.postinst… more »

direct rendering with nvidia

July 19th, 2007
I was trying to run Guild Wars under wine last night, without success for a while. I have a number of games that run through wine (WoW, CS, Warcraft III) and couldn't work out why it would have stopped working. I had some initial success at some points p… more »

The right question.

July 5th, 2007
The Internet has a whole crap load of information on it... and wading through it can be a difficult task, and is a skill that has to be acquired. Google has made it easier, and for that I respect them. But it all comes down to asking the right questio… more »

I love Objects

July 5th, 2007
I've been paid to be a software developer for almost 7 years now and the truth of the matter is that all through that time I've been following the OO design principles, knowing the benefits and only occasionally making use of some of the large advantages… more »