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Words cannot express how much I want this right now: BBQ Bacon Explosion

Finally, something different. Obama is challenging our expectations of a “say everything, do nothing” US government. It’s still early days, and he’s getting alot of media coverage that a long-term president might not, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s doing things, and keeping promises Green light for US stem cell work – BBC [...]

Update: VNC Enterprise and Personal Edition now fully support Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 (RealVNC) VNC Free Edition is not currently supported on Windows 7. VNC Free Edition is maintained by RealVNC, however since 2006 it has received security updates only, no feature/compatibility updates. For users of VNC Enterprise and Personal Edition (RealVNC), a beta [...]

When running through the installation of VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.10 x64 machine, I received the following error: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] It seems the installer needs to compile a few things (vmmon, vmci, vsock and vmnet modules) and doesn’t [...]

I needed to access some images iso images which are on our Windows file server, from my Ubuntu test box. After a little research I found out how to do this. You essentially need to mount the Windows share on your Linux box, so first things first make sure your Linux box knows the Windows [...]

This is what I was left asking myself after installing VMWare Server 2.0 on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. After installing, you can access the Web UI just by entering your <ipaddr>:[port] that you set it to run on, into a browser, e.g.: http://localhost:8222 However, you’re now prompted for a username and password, having not set [...]

The reason I wrote The Godfather was to make money. My first novel, The Dark Arena (1955), received very good reviews and netted me $3,500, so I thought I was going to be rich and famous. But when my second novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim, came out ten years later and netted me just $3,000, I [...]