If you have just one operating systems installed sometimes you do not need to have a grub menu to be displayed when linux boots.
To do that edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add / uncomment line:
hiddenmenu
if you would like to remove countdown as well edit line with timeout to 0.
Once you have made changes you need [...]
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Easiest way to convert virtual machine from vmware.vmdk to virtualbox.vdi is to use these two tools: qemu and vditool
Navigate to you vmware machine which you would like to convert. Then run following command:
qemu-img convert -f vmdk vmware.vmdk -O raw virtualbox.bin
then you need to download vditool from:
http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/vditool
make vditool executable:
chmod +x vditool
Use vditool to convert virtual images:
./vditool [...]
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I have recently run into a problem when I was trying to convert vmware virtual machine to virtualbox using vditool. Apparently having the latest software is not always good idea. vditool is complaining that it is missing libstdc++.so.5 library. I have only installed libstdc++.so.6 which is there by default. libstdc++.so.5 belongs to gcc-3.3-base compiler.
Here is [...]
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This is for those who are trying to install virtualbox via debian apt-get tool and are having this error message on the screen:
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://www.virtualbox.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 390EC3FF927CCC73
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct [...]
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Sometimes we would like to instruct apache to redirect all incoming visitors from our_sample_domain.com to www.our_sample_domain.com
to do this we need to amend .htaccess file as follows:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^our_sample_domain.com\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule .* our_sample_domain.com/ [L,R=301]
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Today I was reading article about how to protect children against the obscene and dangerous web sites coming trough the Internet to our homes. There are many techniques how to achieve this goal. People with technical prepositions have a options to filter content via proxy server, use modems with web content filters features or use [...]
Filed under: Fun and Linux | Tagged: blacklist keywords, help, internet, Linux, parents, tools, web content filter | 2 Comments »
