How can one be so *retarded* ?

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1) Get ESXi 3.5 Update 2 (build 110271) from http://www.vmware.com/download/esxi/

VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.iso

OR Get VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 from

http://tomas.hrdlicka.co.uk/vmware/esx/esx350/esx-3.5.0_Update_2-110268.iso

2) Get VMware workstation 6.5 from

http://www.vmware.com/communities/content/beta/ws65/download.htm

3) In Workstation 6.5 create a new VM, select Custom in “New Virtual Machine Wizard” . Select RedHat 5 x64 Linux version. Select one CPU only, Select at least 1024 MB RAM. As a Virtual disk
type select SCSI and as SCSI controller select LSI Logic.

Customize hardware to remove USB Controller, Sound Card, Floppy drive. In Display settings select  Accelerate 3D graphics checkbox. Select CD/DVD (IDE) and point it to correct ISO file.

VERY IMPORTANT: Select single processor only (Intel VT-x) and 1024 MB RAM

4) Boot the machine! Under VMware Workstation 6.5 the speed of ESX/ESXi is amazing! It take less

than 20 seconds to boot fully.

Sorry no screenshots

* vdi to raw *

wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/vditool

vditool  COPYDD test.vdi test.raw

For AMD64 systems use:

http://dhiru.kholia.googlepages.com/vditool.tar

(extract to /usr/lib/virtualbox)

* raw to vdi *

VBoxManage convertdd test.raw test.vdi

VBoxManage modifyvdi test.vdi compact

* raw to vmdk *

qemu-img convert -O vmdk test.raw test.vmdk

* mount vdi *

* mount vmdk *

vmware-mount  -p test.vmdk

mware-mount  test.vmdk 1 <mountpoint>

Tested under Virtualbox 1.6.4, Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64, VMware Workstation 6.5

1) GRE Bible using wine

sh winetricks wsh56

2) aptitude install dict dictd

3) Get Word Lists from : http://www.postech.ac.kr/~gla/gre/

4) Get Vocab Builder from: http://www.geocities.com/spany_1/vocab_builder.html

5) Gretools from : http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~arvindn/gretools/

See the excellent article http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php.

After booting the Debian MIPS image:

aptitude update ; aptitude upgrade

aptitude install build-essential gcc rcconf openssh-server screen gdb

Test Program: http://dhiru.kholia.googlepages.com/endian_detect.c

*  The installer CD takes ages to load.

(KNOPPIX/ Hardy Heron Desktop loads much much faster!)

* The rounded GNOME buttons look plain ugly.  Hire decent artists.

* no gcc on CD! wtf Sun?

* Retarted package manager. Damn slow!

Does it really download single files one by one? Come on at least publish software in archives. Just copy/use apt at least!

* The shutdown option from GNOME menu doesn’t work always!

* GCC version in repository is 90+MB !!! and is stuck at version 3.4.3

In which age are you living, Sun? At least give us 4.x

* This release is horrible. Better luck next time! *

- Compilation and installation takes less than 10 seconds.

- Does not clutter /usr/bin.

- Works flawlessly under M$ Windows.

- Plays nice with SVN.

- Easy to learn. (Takes < 5 minutes!)

Get it from: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

Binary Packages: http://mercurial.berkwood.com/

bye bye git for now!

Symptoms:

- ssh clients hangs.

- cat /var/log/auth.log shows openpty errors.

FIX:

/sbin/MAKEDEV tty

/sbin/MAKEDEV pty

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts

Permanent:

add following to /etc/fstab

none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

Problem: Doing right-click in vim makes vim go in “visual mode” and pasting doesn’t work.

Solution: Disable vim’s mouse support.

Edit /etc/vimrc and append “set mouse=”

Now it works. Thanks to #vim on FreeNode

Debug:

:verbose  set mouse?

“No Disks found”  on NVIDIA 650i Ultra Motherboard.

Even April 8.0 and 7.0 snapshots have the same bug.

wtf?

Crash Logs:

http://dhiru.kholia.googlepages.com/FreeBSD7-no-ACPIcrash.tar

http://dhiru.kholia.googlepages.com/FreeBSD7nforcecrashACPI.tar