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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... ]
Author Archive for ben.kevan
I am ben kevan.. Well yeah. .that's about it.
Fluxbox on openSUSE 11.3
Are you sick of Gnome? KDE? or XFCE? Do you have a very old machine that you want to run Linux on, but the newer [ continue reading... ]
Ruby 1.8.5 on RHEL 4
While working on deploying puppet 2.6.0 onto RHEL4, I found that the supported ruby version of 1.8.1 does not have the right support for default_argv [ continue reading... ]
Puppet 2.6.0 on SLES 11 SP1
Recently my orginization signed a contract with Novell to implement some SLES. With this I decided to start implementing puppet (learning it first) along with [ continue reading... ]
screenshot with scrot – a command line tool for screenshots
scrot is a great command line tool for screenshots with some great built in capabilities. The most basic usage of scrot is: That would take [ continue reading... ]
KDE SC 4.4.5 Released
By ben.kevan on Jun 30, 2010 in GNOME & KDE
From the release notes: KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 Released: Codename “Ceilidh” KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop, Containing [ continue reading... ]
KDE 4.5 Beta 2 Released
By ben.kevan on Jun 09, 2010 in GNOME & KDE
From the announcement KDE Software Compilation 4.5 Beta2 Released: Codename Cake KDE Community Ships First Beta Release of the 4.5 Free Desktop, Applications and Development [ continue reading... ]
Long Unexpected Downtime
By ben.kevan on Jun 03, 2010 in Website News
Hey All, Sorry for the long unexpected downtime. However my shared service hosting company suspended my account for cpu usage. I think it was a [ continue reading... ]
xorg-server 1.8.1 Released
The first stable release of the 1.8 series is now available. Only two changes over RC2 (Julien’s EXTRA_DIST patch and Adam’s VNC patch), so you [ continue reading... ]
Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL from rebooting a Linux machine
By ben.kevan on May 06, 2010 in Administration How-To
In normal hardening techniques one should in an enterprise setting always disable the usage of CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot a Linux Machine. This key sequence is [ continue reading... ]
The Cause Of The Middle Tennessee Floods
Well it seems that the cause of all the floods in the Middle Tennessee area has been determined. This weather reporter seemed to find the [ continue reading... ]
PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 – Released
The PCLinuxOS Development team announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 Edition. This is the second release for the PCLinuxOS 2010 Family, which includes [ continue reading... ]
Install KDE 4.4.3 on Kubuntu 10.04
The KDE Developers today announced the release of KDE SC 4.4.3. With the immediate release of KDE 4.4.3 is the possibility of upgrading your Kubuntu [ continue reading... ]
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.3 – Released
Today the KDE developers announced the immediate release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4.3. From the release notes: May 5th, 2010. Today, KDE has released a [ continue reading... ]
Finding out if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick
In some cases while working in your VMware environment it’s very important to know what type of virtual disk you’re working with. A few of [ continue reading... ]
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