Qemu -smb option does not work on Debian/Ubuntu because of a bug in Samba package. Rebuild the Samba package without the –with-fhs option to work around it. But you still can use samba without “-smb” option. Lets say you have ubuntu as host OS and WindowsXP guest OS. Install samba server on host OS : [...]

If you’re still running kernel 2.4.x, to burn a cd you’re forced to use SCSI emulation (under kernel module ide-scsi). But in kernel 2.6.x, it’s easy as 123. We can use ide-cd. Firstly, you’ll need to load it: sudo modprobe ide-cd And to burn a cd, you have to make an iso file. Use apt [...]

Google Gears is a small application designed to help you use Google services offline. The installation seemed to work successful and the extension also is listed in the addons, but google gears setting page does not appear. Maybe you’re facing the same problem, here’s the solution. If you’re running Firefox (For some reasons they called [...]

Many distributions of Linux have an option to install MySQL. In this case, or even if you compile MySQL, the default password is blank. Make sure that you set password for the root user. This is the command: mysql -u root mysql SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'localhost’ = PASSWORD(‘s3cr3tp4s5w0rd’);

Debian Etch (4.0) + Fluxbox

ERROR: QEMU requires SDL or Cocoa for graphical output To build QEMU without graphical output configure with –disable-gfx-check Note that this will disable all output from the virtual graphics card. While compiling I got the following errors. To solve this problem, I’ve to install SDL library. sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev Should works with Ubuntu or [...]

While connecting to GoogleTalk/MSN, if you see this message: Server require TLS/SSL for this connection That’s mean you did not compile Pidgin with SSL support. All you have to do is to install required ssl. sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libnss3-dev Recompile and all done! Have a try.

Debian change Firefox to Iceweasel. Since Google’s toolbar does not install as the installer does not recognize Iceweasel as Firefox. To get full Google Toolbar support: in the navigation: about: config filter for : general.useragent.extra.firefox change Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 To Firefox/2.0.0.4 Go back to Google Toolbar’s website, and install.