I always live in hope that just one day, the folks over at Fedora will actually have a pain free VMWare installation. Not to be. Here’s how to do it with the minimal gnashing of teeth. Bugs that get you before anything else On VMWare Fusion 5, currently Fedora 18 x86_64 Live DVD’s graphical installer…
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My blog posts for the GaiaBB One Laptop Per Child project
Fedora 17 install on VMWare Fusion 4 / Workstation 8
I am moving over to using Fedora from Ubuntu as I am helping out with the OLPC XS (School Server) on XO laptop effort, which is Fedora based. Fedora 17, codename The Beefy Miracle (seriously), has just been released, so it’s time to update my Linux development workstations. Installing Fedora 17 in VMWare Fusion /…
Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in VMWare Fusion – Keyboard issues
I upgraded my VMware Fusion image to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS over the weekend, and everything went well except for the keyboard. It wouldn’t work. So here’s how I found out how to fix it: Go to the Accessibility Preferences at the bottom of the screen, and tick on screen keyboard. You have to reboot because…
How to migrate to PDO without it hurting… much
As we saw in the previous article, conversion to MySQLi is an awful lot of work. So let’s move to PDO. Step 0. Get PDO working with your database server Somewhere along the line, the PHP and MySQL folks decided to not be friends, so even though 99.99% of all PHP scripts require MySQL, in…
The OLPCs are here
Wow – that was quick. I have three OLPCs in my office. I need to go sort out some US power plugs for them so I can charge them, but they’re here! 🙂
Proto GaiaBB runs fine in Browse
Phew. Obviously, the default theme fails a bit when you see only two rows of topic activity. Will really need to make that work a whole lot better. However, the actual rendering is perfect. Yay! One less task to be done.
GaiaBB and OLPC
Peter Quodling. an old friend, e-mailed out of the blue last week. I have a lot of time for Peter as he’s one of the few Australian IT architects that really knows his stuff, plus he’s a really nice guy. He is involved in OLPC in the PNG region. Last Christmas, I nearly bought an XO…