Monthly Archives: January 2009

Review: NiBiRu

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Liz

NiBiRu (Age of Secrets) is a point-and-click adventure game with an interesting story. The Nazi’s were researching an enormous weapon. Their findings involved the tenth planet (nibiru) and ancient South-American cultural artifacts. Martin Holan is an archeology student. He receives … Continue reading →

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Command of the week: partprobe

Posted on January 31, 2009 by nipeng

From the man page: DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command. partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating  system  re-read the partition table. Quite handy if … Continue reading →

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VMware server 2.x on Ubuntu server 8.04

Posted on January 11, 2009 by nipeng

Yesterday I upgraded my VMware server 1.x to version 2.0. I am using a minimal Ubuntu server 8.04 (LTS) dedicated for this role. The upgrade, pretty similar to a new install, was uneventful. Observations: In server 2.x a webinterface is … Continue reading →

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Crunchbang #!

Posted on January 3, 2009 by nipeng

Looking for a light but still user friendly distro? Give Crunchbang a try. A quote from the website : CrunchBang Linux is an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution has been built … Continue reading →

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