Author Archive for ben.kevan

I am ben kevan.. Well yeah. .that's about it.

Disable Nepomuk or Strigi (Desktop Search / Indexing) in KDE 4.7 Kubuntu openSUSE
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Disable Nepomuk or Strigi (Desktop Search / Indexing) in KDE 4.7 Kubuntu openSUSE

The KDE developers have included Strigi and Nepomuk to help users find files on their computer. You can read about strigi here or nepomuk here. [ continue reading... ]

Installing Oracle (sun) Java 1.7u1 openSUSE 12.1
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Installing Oracle (sun) Java 1.7u1 openSUSE 12.1

As many of you know, SUSE decided to drop Oracle Java starting with openSUSE 12.1. This decision was due to licensing changes, that we all [ continue reading... ]

Business Data Recovery
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Business Data Recovery

Data Recovery With more and more businesses using VMware to run virtual machines that run their business critical applications, what are the options available on [ continue reading... ]

Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, 13 or 12
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Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, 13 or 12

If you’re looking for Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, then you’re in luck. I’ve gone through the .spec and cleaned it up a bit, along [ continue reading... ]

Fluxbox 1.3.0 Released
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Fluxbox 1.3.0 Released

Fluxbox has had its first release since 2008. This release brings me much joy, as a Fluxbox user, it solidifies the point that Fluxbox is [ continue reading... ]

Installing openSUSE 11.4 GNOME Live CD Step by Step
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Installing openSUSE 11.4 GNOME Live CD Step by Step

Here are a bunch of screenshots for the installation of openSUSE 11.4 using the GNOME Live CD. The screenshots are self explanatory and shouldn’t require [ continue reading... ]

Black Box While Using Flash on x86_64 Arch Linux
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Black Box While Using Flash on x86_64 Arch Linux

Recently I re-installed Arch Linux onto my Laptop, and upon installing Chromium (9) and copying libflashplayer.so (the Beta that is full x86_64 bit compatible) into [ continue reading... ]

Comparing CTK Arch Live and ArchBang
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Comparing CTK Arch Live and ArchBang

My name is Prashanth Venkataram, and I write and manage the blog Das U-Blog by Prashanth, where I write about open-source software and people’s freedoms [ continue reading... ]

VMware Powershell – Find the number of Windows VMs
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VMware Powershell – Find the number of Windows VMs

family law lawyers . experiance . Have you ever needed to know the count of VM’s in your environment ran Windows Server, or Linux? Well, [ continue reading... ]

In-Depth Chakra “Ashoc” 0.3.0 Review and Impressions
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In-Depth Chakra “Ashoc” 0.3.0 Review and Impressions

This is guest blogger Prashanth Venkataram, and I write and manage the blog Das U-Blog by Prashanth, where I post reviews of Linux distributions and [ continue reading... ]

Voice recognition software – Be patient, because it can do a lot for you
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Voice recognition software – Be patient, because it can do a lot for you

Voice recognition software is an extremely productive tool for people who produce a lot of text. This software can write as fast as you can [ continue reading... ]

Linux Kernel 2.6.30+ RDS Vulnerability
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Linux Kernel 2.6.30+ RDS Vulnerability

Recently it was reported by VSR Security that Linux Kernel versions 2.6.30+ are affected by an exploit due to the implementation of RDS (Reliable Datagram [ continue reading... ]

Puppet 2.6.2 on SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise
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Puppet 2.6.2 on SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise

If you’re a puppet user and running SLES and have been looking for the latest version shipped via an RPM, then you’re in luck. california [ continue reading... ]

Ubuntu 10.10 – Is it worth the hype?
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Ubuntu 10.10 – Is it worth the hype?

As with any Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 10.10 has quite the hype train backing it, and its release. But this time, they backed it up better [ continue reading... ]

Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI
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Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI

VMware doesn’t seem to provide a very good way to get the version of your VMware tools currently installed on your server. However, you can [ continue reading... ]