romka@linux

ksmd seem to be CPU hungry when virtual machine is running.

+KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y,
+added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.32. See mm/ksm.c for its implementation,
+and http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/330589/

I’ve disabled it for now, we’ll see how everything runs afterwords…

1. Did full backup of my root partition and dot files in a home folder.
2. Deleted all dot files from home folder.
3. Installed 10.04 from CD “clean”
4. Installed all my software (I have a file with apt-get command installing all I need unattended – start in the evening, PC ready in the morning)
5. Everything seems to work so far

Solution by TJ from launchpad bugs:

Create a new group “vm” and add users that require USB access for VMs to it:

sudo addgroup vm
sudo addgroup $USER vm

Log-out/log-in to effect the new group membership.

Add a udev rule to assign USB devices to the vm group:

# Virtual Machine hypervisor access to USB devices
SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ENV{DEVTYPE}==”usb_device”, GROUP=”vm”
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, GROUP=”vm”

Save the file as /etc/udev/rules.d/41-vm-usb.rules and reload udevd:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

I’ve got fed up with VMWare issues and testing KVM/QEMU which seem to be a bit more proper way of running virtual machines under linux. I enjoy the possibility of running it from command line and using VNC connection to the Virtual PC. some tricks are still needed:

1) had to disable “Enhance pointer precision” in Pointer Options in XP guest to align cursors…

VMWare and kvm is not going to leave in peace ) If kvm modules are loaded – vmware virtual machine is not going to start… To start it:
sudo modprobe -r kvm*

Here

I’ve managed to get connected to my corporate Novell shares. Solution is ncpmount (we don’t use ipx so I didn’t install it) + thanks to this post:

ncpmount -S server_name -A server_ip -U novell_login /mnt/novell/

novell_login matches my linux box login, otherwise -u linux_login is said to be needed.

Works a charm )

I’ve also made /mnt/novell/ to be owned by my linux_login, so I don’t need to sudo

Installed tesseract as an OSR engine.

It might require convert in_file -compression NONE -rotate _angle_ out_file.tif to convert graphical file to tif and properly rotate it

Afterwards tesseract file.tif file to generate file.txt with recognized image

There is a free version for Linux called pioneers. To add 3 computer players need to open new terminal and type:
pioneersai -n comp1 -s 127.0.0.1 & pioneersai -n comp2 -s 127.0.0.1 & pioneersai -n comp3 -s 127.0.0.1 &

found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1359342

Full gide is here. Short:

1. Download Notes 8.5.1 for debian platforms and extract the files.

2. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

3. install getlibs from http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/

4. issue the following command:
> sudo getlibs -p libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonoboui2-0 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libeel2-2 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-dev librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libselinux1 libsepol1 libstartup-notification0 libxkbfile1 gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks gtk2-engines-murrine

5. install the Notes Deb files:
sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.1.i586.deb

6. sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

7. replace some libaries from:
http://linux-aha.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/notes_libs_karmic.tgz in /opt/ibm/lotus/notes with the ones from the link above . Make sure they are owned by root and that they are executable. Set the permissons like the ones of the other libraries in /opt/ibm/lotus/notes