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VirtualBox on Windows 7 Host with Raw Disk Access – Solution to Randomly Changing Disc Assignment Numbers

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Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems

Learn how to get the X11rdp binary up and running, for use with the xrdp package.

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Problem with Virtualbox 4.1 and Teleporting

Ugh.

My websites are self-hosted and run in virtual machines by way of Virtualbox. I have two physical servers, both can access the virtual drives used by my VM’s via LVM partitions on a separate NAS, which means if I need to I can teleport the VM’s from one physical server to another, and perform

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Problems with virtualbox 4.0.2 and linux kernel 2.6.38? Here’s a solution..

Just copy/paste this entire line into a terminal window…

sudo cd /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost && for file in `grep “autoconf.h” * -R| cut -f1 -d:`; do sed -i ‘s/^#\(\s*\)include <linux\/autoconf\.h>/#\1include <generated\/autoconf.h>/g’ $file; done

Then type;

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

The virtualbox driver should now compile.

The file “autoconf.h” has been moved in more recent kernels from <linux/autoconf.h> to

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Ubuntu Natty, xrdp, gnome-session, “No valid session found.”

Ubunut Natty is now underway, and Ubuntu want to push its use of Unity desktop manager. I however wish to use the gnome-desktop without any fancy-schmancy features, because I remotely log in to that machine via xrdp.

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Solution to Ubuntu 10.10 and xrdp sesman crashes on 2nd login.

Solution to xrdp-sesman crashing on Ubuntu 10.04 on second login attempt.

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Indoor vegetable grower which blends in with your living room

I had one main consideration on the end product – that it should blend in with the house, i.e. “it should look like part of the furniture”. I didn’t want some Heath Robinson arrangement sticking out like a sore thumb in the living room.

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Hacking around the Japanese Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

(2010-12-09 Now unstuck this page because I plan to overwrite with Openwrt – will publish a writeup about this).

UPDATE 2010-09-17 : look in comments for serial port pinouts… UPDATE 2010-10-02 : A reader of this site has discovered what to set in the environment variables which tells the Japanese firmware to accept ANY alternate

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