Linux has long been able to mount both Windows NTFS and FAT file systems, but the reverse is not true in Windows. To view a ext2 or ext3 file system, I tried a tool called DiskInternals Linux Reader, downloaded from the company’s web site: http://www.diskinternals.com/download.shtml. I installed it on my dual boot Windows XP/Kubuntu server. […]

So today I decided to set up a SAMBA server on my Kubuntu because this is where my music collection is stored. My son uses the music library to sync up his ipod, and his computer is often running Windows XP. To install SAMBA, I used the Kubuntu Debian package manager. Very straight forward. Afterwards, […]

The VMWare Server is a free product you can download directly from VMWare. You do need to register to get a serial number to complete the installation. The installation on Kubuntu is pretty straight forward. You need sudo privilege to run the configuration program, otherwise, the program complains. Also, either xinetd or inetd is requires. […]

I just encountered another failed JVM setting. This time it was the Oracle SQL Developer. Here’s the error log under verbose option: [email protected]:/opt/sqldeveloper$ ./sqldeveloper.sh -verbose Oracle SQL Developer Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Reading configuration from: /opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin/sqldeveloper.conf Working directory is /opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin Running Command: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/bin/../jre/bin/java -Xmx512M -Xverify:none -XX:JavaPriority10_To_OSPriority=10 -XX:JavaPriority9_To_OSPriority=9 -Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -Dcom.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name=SQL_Developer -Dcom.apple.mrj.application.growbox.intrudes=false -Dcom.apple.macos.smallTabs=true […]

When I launched the Java IDE Netbeans 6.1 today, I got this error: [email protected]:~/netbeans-6.1/bin$ ./netbeans An irrecoverable stack overflow has occurred. # # An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb7e249bc, pid=25679, tid=3019492240 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (10.0-b22 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86) # […]

The BIOS in the ASUS 1005HA netbook was shipped without support for ACPI in Windows 7. All the blue function keys on the netbook rely on the ACPI layer to work, therefore, I decided to upgrade the BIOS to the latest in order to run Windows 7. There’s only one problem — the BIOS flash […]

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I decided to use Windows 7 bootloader instead GRUB to manage the dual boot. I’ve been using GRUB before to manage Linux/Windows dual boot — you need to edit the menu.lst file in the /boot folder under the Linux root partition; this time, I decided to give the Windows 7 bootloader a try. Windows 7 […]

I’ve been having stability trouble with my nVidia graphics card on an old computer. I needed some really old drivers to test and see if the problem was introduced by the newer drivers.  Instead of finding them on nVidia’s site, I found the old drivers through the Omega driver site: http://www.omegadrivers.net Omega site have drivers […]