In order to show you the VirtualBox potential, and make easy the migration to Ubuntu for the users of XP, who want to use it from Ubuntu. We are going to see how you can virtualize an made XP partition from Ubuntu 8.04 suing VirtualBox.
We can find the same solution with VMware Workstation at Kriptópolis (Spanish), but this product can be used 30 days. I probed with the free VMware Server product, but it do not provide the partition virtualizing property.
Then with no doubt we can say that VirtualBox is the most durable solution, although Open Source.
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VirtualBox is the virtualization tool with one GPL edition, as we speak bellow.
It is becaming as an attractive choice against VMware products, with propietary code philosophy.
VirtualBox was acquired on 2008 February by SUN Microsystems.
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We are going to install the VMware’s product, the earliest company in the Virtualization issue.
VMware Server is one of their free products, it creates and manage virtual machine containers like its payment brother, VMware Workstation. But in this case we find the Administration interface at a web breowser. Then we get the whole possibilities create/erase/administer/use virtual machines from a simple web browser, from any site, having access to the host machine.
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Today I will comment some useful plugins I have found for Wordpress. Depending on your web purpose they could help you.
In my case, blog for technical purposes, the most useful plugin is the WP-Syntax.
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April 21st, 2008
7:00
Maemo
At the end of the year 2007 was resleased the new version of this operating system Debian based for mobile terminals.
Here we have the official noticed for the new release of the OS2008 Maemo version.
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April 14th, 2008
7:00
Wiki
In the MediaWiki CMS we have an extension for the LDAP authentication: LDAP_Authentication.
Then I we have an Directory Server (LDAP or Active Directory), we can use our wiki with our global authentication services.
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I am going to talk about a little problem that I found installing Compiz over Ubuntu in my laptop.
There are graphic cards in a Compiz Blacklist, because of they did not enough tested, or did not use standards, with Compiz can grant a good software performance.
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March 31st, 2008
7:00
Wiki
The target for this post is to embed at our MediaWiki an editor as Wordpress wysiwyg editor. For editing visual and no-problem with the back language.
With Wiki applications this language is not HTML, because of the complexity or the reference systems used. They use a tagged language, Wikitext, which we could do not need or do not our users learn.
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At this post we are going to see how to connect Netbeans IDE to your Database. In my case I work over Oracle SGBD, then I will access to this SGBD.
We will use the JDBC standar, java based for remote DDBB connections purposes.
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NetBeans is an excellent IDE (Integrated Development Environment) developed by Sun MicroSystems. Early to develop J2EE applications and later to develop Ruby, PHP, C, C++,…
Today we will install this software and show any links to start to develop Java web applications.
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February 25th, 2008
7:00
Wiki
At this article we will see how to install MediaWiki over a LAMP server, in my server, over Debian Etch.
MediaWiki is a software to mount wikis, PHP developed. A wiki is a collaborative web site hich can be edited by some people at same time. My interests is due to manage my documentation and index it efficiently. Concrete, writing the big texts, the little ones serve this blog.
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In this article i explain how do I install joomla, it is a CMS (Content Management System) for general purpose portals based on PHP+MySQL technologies.
Warning: if you want install th Joomla version with spanish administration system, download entire opackage from here: Joomla_1.0.13-spanish-premium.tar.gz, here.
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February 15th, 2008
7:00
Ubuntu
In suggestion of my coleague and friend JaviScript (or JJ), I write this article about my problems with the Ubuntu installation.
First problem is that it stop at the graphic LiveCD enviroment start. The solution was boot without the Power Management services:
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As an alternative in free software for Norton Ghost, or DriveImage/PartitionMagic (PowerQuest before, Norton nowadays), we have SysRescCD.
It is a CD to rescue the systemsfrom a big disease.
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January 28th, 2008
7:00
LAN, UPS
We want that our NUT sends a shutdown order when there is not suply and the battery goes down. But it could be useful too to shut down a Cybertheque computers, computer classroom, ….
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January 21st, 2008
7:00
UPS
In a previouspost we saw how to install NUT to administer an UPS.
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January 14th, 2008
7:00
UPS
NUT (Network UPS Tool) is a group of tools to administer Uninterruptible Power Systems which ensure the continuous suply for our equipment.
With this article we install and configure the tool in a Debian etch.
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Our target is that when is acceded the directory http://www.midominio.com/privado/, our server makes access control, then it ask for an user/password, and validate trough our directory server.
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December 31st, 2007
7:00
Flash
To close this series we are going to show two curiosities more: form interpolation, and object libraries in Flash 8 integrated.
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Wordpress is a Content Management System (CMS) spcialized in blog area, logs, blocks, journals (posts) personal.
We will install Wordpress over Debian Etch, with Apache2+PHP5+MySQL.
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