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Howto Install VMWare tools on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

One of my friend has prepared a howto on how to install VMware tools on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. I find it interesting because he has never use Ubuntu or any debian-based distro before, yet he has published a quick way to install VMware tools on Edgy Eft.

Considering the fact that I have never use debian before, and this in my first experience on a debian based distro, i did some googling and using the trial and error method, I’ve come to the conclusion that the step below is the best way to install vmware tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft..

Read his complete post here : Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

[tags]vmware,ubuntu,edgy eft, ubuntu 6.10, linux, debian[/tags]

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Shop smarter – Grab Coupons for Online Gift Shopping

I’m going to let you know previously untold secret: I’m a shop addict. I’ve became one ever since I learn how to do online transaction from a friend. Since then, I never missed an opportunities to grab whatever stuff that I want to be through the Internet, provided that it is well priced.

If you’re smart enough, you can even get lower prices when you’re shopping online. Some online stores has a feature called ‘Online Coupon codes‘ which when entered, will give you special discount for the things you buy online. These coupon codes are given away by retailers as a way to promote their products on the internet.

Where can I find These Coupons?
One such place that you can find coupon codes is from Ncnatural Coupon Resources, a daily updated directory of coupon codes. The website is organized in such way that users will be able to locate coupons quickly without much hassle.

For a geek like me, I find coupons from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble are most interesting as I like to read a lot of books.

With Christmas just around the corner there will be a lot of shopping going on and I’m sure that you’ll save a lot on online shopping with these coupons :)

[tags]shop,e-commerce, online shopping, coupon, coupon codes,tips,amazon[/tags]

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Test Drive OLPC Operating system

If you remember back a while ago I wrote about One Laptop Per Child project that aim to produce laptop at a cost of USD100.

The project has been progressing positively since I wrot e about them on my blog. Several prototype has been made and now OLPC association has received its very first B1 laptop machine.

Additionally, OLPC has released XO Laptop operating system images for testing on your machine, the images are specially tuned for emulators can be downloaded from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation. Here’s some screenshot of the OLPC operating system running on my PC (under VMWare) :

grub olpc

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List partition types in Linux with fdisk

A quick tip, you can find about all partition type in your system by typing “fdisk -l” (as root). For example :

fdisk

With this command fdisk lists partition type in all disks without you having to mount them.

What can you do with these information?
You can use it as a clue to mount your partition. fdisk also list the device name of the corresponding partition thus making your job easier to identify which device contains the data that you want to find.

[tags]tips,tutorial,fdisk,linux,partitions,ubuntu,debian[/tags]

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PayPerPost – an Innovative way to blog and get paid

Finally, I’m glad that my blog was accepted in PayPerPost, a relatively new service which allows your to earn money while blogging. PayPerPost is a truly innovative way to spread buzz across the internet.

How do you earn money by blogging? Simple, all you need to do is register your website with PayPerPost and awaits them to accept you. To make sure that you can earn continuously, you must make sure that you checked categories that most suited you. Writing for the sake of getting the money alone won’t do much good to your visitors and blog.

I love PayPerPost because they give you the freedom to choose from a number of reviews/buzz (called: opportunities) to write about, this way you can handpick which opportunities that is better suited for your style and way of writing and remember theme consistency is important for your blog.

And yes, PayPerPost works both ways too, if you have a product, services or something that you want people to talk about, then you can sign in as an advertiser. You can select the amount of payment you like to pay bloggers, write in some specifications and let them talk about your products and you’ll have your ads on blogs in no time.

So go ahead and try PayPerPost now

[tags]blogging,blog,payperpost,earnings[/tags]

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Burn CD images in Linux command line

This tip will be brief, it concerns about writing bootable linux iso images to CDROM. What you need is cdrecord, cd-writer drive, blank cd-r and iso image (and maybe mkisofs).

Howto burn ISO images to CD
Insert the blank CD-R, and run

cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cdrom ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso

and you’re done.

Howto burn (backup) files to Data CD
You’ll need mkisofs and cdrecord to burn your data files to a CD,

Run,

mkisofs -r -J -o yourbackup.iso /home/path_to/your_files

cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom  -data  yourbackup.iso

and that’s the easiest way to burn cds on command-line linux.

[tags]linux,cdrom,iso9660,joliet,ubuntu,cdrecord,mkisofs,debian[/tags]