Comments for Streams of Consciousness

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by Russell

Russell — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:25:49 +0000

This patch only works with tools version 5.5.2. Please make sure your version is the same.
Run /usr/sbin/vmware-checkvm to confirm.

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by shon

shon — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:00:26 +0000

I’m in step 3 and when I execute “sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl”

I get the error message

“This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine.”

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by Russell

Russell — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:24:14 +0000

“you will need to make a minor change to the xorg.conf file.”

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by xunshirine

xunshirine — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:05:43 +0000

For Mouse scroll problem you indicated the solution above . But the problem is where is the ”Configured Mouse” section and how the changes performed. Thanks

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by Russell

Russell — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:24:40 +0000

The patch is located on my server. You can get the patch using wget as shown in the first line of Step 3. If you don’t apply the patch, the video will still work, however you will not have advanced video functionality. The patch is a plain text file so you can look at what is being done (for your peace of mind) to know that I’m not trying backdoor your system.

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by xunshirine

xunshirine — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:05:42 +0000

Thank for the guide. I am absolute beginner and wish to ask some questions. Mistakenly I passed the patching caution (3rd step) and continued the process . For now it works fine. What is the aim of patching?
2. The first paragrafh of 3rd step you indicated; ”Put the contents of the vmware-config-tools-5.5.2-patch-diff.txt file in your home directory. (Look over the changes for your peace of mind)” I didnt get, sorry. I couldn’t find any file named patch-diff.txt . Could you specify the exact location of that file.

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by cadavg

cadavg — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:52:06 +0000

Oh, I see. I didn’t know it was only for 5.5.2. I’m going to try it out now. Thanks.

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by Russell

Russell — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:10:14 +0000

Not sure what your problem might be. It looks like the file is not being patched correctly. When you download the patch make sure you are doing it on your Ubuntu system and not on a Windows system then transferring over. Also, this patch only works for the 5.5.2 tools.

Comment on Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 by cadavg

cadavg — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:57:13 +0000

I am getting a syntax error “line 4491, near ‘elsif’ … aborted due to compilation errors.”

What do you think I should do to fix this?

Comment on The FaÃ§ade of Productivity by Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:13:46 +0000

I was thinking it might be easier for me to place a white board in my front yard to ‘blog’ on.

Unfortunately that also brings with it many issues.

When I update the white board I would need to put up some detour signs so nobody would drive by and see the ’site’ while ‘under construction’.
Archiving would be difficult.
I would have to keep an eye out the window to keep ’site defacers’ away.
Not sure I want to get into implementing a firewall.
Excessive wind could knock the board over and ‘crash’ the ’site’.
I might get tired of sitting next to the board so visitors would get to see a ‘live feed’ of the administrator.

Just one of the many odd things that pops into my mind occasionally.

Enjoy