February 23rd, 2010 by acmelab68
If you’re not satisfied with VMWare’s support regarding Linux, and your VMWare Server 2.0.x doesn’t behave reliably, it’s time to migrate to KVM, if you are on Linux. I’ve done this, and I am quite happy. It’s working better, than I thought.
Although there are quite a few HOWTOs and Migration instructions, nevertheless none of them met my needs. This is a step be step migration guide for an Ubuntu Karmic (9.10). (Should work for SuSE, Gentoo and Fedora with a few mods, too) Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Migration from VMWare to KVM (Linux)’
February 22nd, 2010 by acmelab68
This is small collection of tips for the command line. The Linux default command line is bash. These tips mostly refers to bash. Actually are these commands, I’d like to use more often, but forget about it regularly. Especially the first one, searching the bash_history is extremely helpful.
Continue reading ‘Linux: Some Useful Tips for the Command Line’
February 22nd, 2010 by acmelab68
This little HOWTO is nothing special, and have been mentioned at http://forum.mymediasystem.org before, but actually every second year I need one special command in order to teach MMS about the new Multimedia keys of my new keyboard. And guess what – I have alwas to look for it. To be precise, there are two such commands. To retrieve keycodes or scan codes from your keyboard use one of these: Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Adding Multimedia Keys to MMS’
February 22nd, 2010 by acmelab68
I was about to teach Skype about how to use HQ video transmission, means a transmission where your video resolution is more than 176×144 or 352×288 (PAL). I’ve read, that adding these lines into your $HOME/.Skype/<your skype user name here>/.config.xml
<Video>
<CaptureHeight>480</CaptureHeight>
<CaptureWidth>640</CaptureWidth>
</Video>
into the <Lib> section, would Skype make HQ Video transmission. But it didn’t for some reasons. Some mentioned to use also the <Fps> tag, but also gave the advice to check if the hardware even supports such frame-rates and resolutions. Continue reading ‘Linux: Getting Information About Your Video Device’
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