I try to use VMs on my developer box at work, but I have been always annoyed with what I felt was “choppiness” or “chunkiness” in the guests’ rendering rate. I asked around, and I found out that this was actually configurable. The parameter is svga.maxChangeTick, and it can be set in the .vmx file […]
Apparently, the correct way to use Technorati is to create an account, then claim your blog. The claim process is interesting. You to embed a special link: Technorati Profile, and have their crawler pick it up. Update: for WordPress, apparently you can just provide a username and password, and they’ll do a fake login and […]
I’ve known about Sysinternals (now owned by MS) for a long time, but I didn’t, and still don’t have a full appreciation for the extreme value of their utilities. For a long while now, I’ve been trying to revive Qian’s computer. It’s an old IBM thinkpad R series, with a 1.13Ghz P3, and 384 megs […]
It seems they haven’t quite worked out all the kinks out of Flash Player 9. My work machine started having an issue where sites couldn’t detect that the player was installed. Instead they would offer a link to Adobe to install the player. Clicking on the link would show a page that indicated that the […]
I can never find the exact answer I’m looking for, so I try to write it down when I finally figure it out. This episode? How to get a fast VNC server on Ubuntu 6.10. First, get the right packages % sudo apt-get install vnc4server This gets you a ‘vnc’ module for your xorg X […]
I’ve written about how you can use Consolas (A new font in office 2007 / Windows Vista) on Windows XP, and how to set it up as the font for powershell. I even set it as my fixed width font in Internet Explorer 7. All seemed well, until I RDP’ed in. It turns out these […]
I recently installed Edgy in a VMware Server 1.01 VM at work, and discovered that because it comes with Xorg 7.1.1, the vmmouse driver that gets included with the tools package doesn’t get installed as part of the tools install. But it turns out the Xorg 7.0.0 version that we do package works fine with […]
At work, I use the Services for Unix NFS server to share source hosted on my Windows XP box over to my Ubuntu box. In general the SFU NFS server performs well (way better than sharing over SMB) and doesn’t cause any problems, except one. When an nfs client accesses a file hosted on the […]