Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Vista in Ubuntu

// January 14th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // guides, tech

I had Windows Vista Home Premium installed last night on my Ubuntu machine. I have 2GB RAM and 250GB of hardisk. Initially I wanted to install XP but turned out the only original DVD we have is Vista Home Premium, so be it! I’ve been wanting to try virtual machine for a long time already but then yesterday that very geek kernel hacker, Nur Hussein, triggered the apt-get move in me with a line “VirtualBox is so cool!”.

What’s VirtualBox? In layman terms, you can have multiple OS running at the same time on your pc without rebooting. Those of you who only know Windows all their life, yes there are alot of other alternative OS you can try, like Ubuntu. Hey install Ubuntu on your Windows using VirtualBox, that’s possible too.

Installing another OS (guest OS) on your existing OS (host OS) will take space and consume memory. In my case, I have allocated 1GB of RAM and 40GB of space for Vista according to its recommended system requirement. So that’s 40GB off of my 250GB and if I switch on Vista I have only 1GB left for Ubuntu, which is ok for me (it only takes 384MB of RAM for Ubuntu). So you have to plan your memory allocation carefully as you must allocate as much as you can to let the guest OS run properly but do not do it until your host OS is left with not enough for it to run either.

What do you need for virtual machine?
1. PC that can meet the minimum requirement
2. VirtualBox
3. Guest OS installation CD/DVD

Install VirtualBox
Add deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list then sudo apt-get update.

$ sudo apt-get install dkms
$ wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1

Install Vista on Ubuntu Karmic
1. Insert installation CD/DVD.
2. Follow instructions here. It’s well documented!

And then finally.

Windows Vista Home Premium on Ubuntu Karmic

Windows Vista Home Premium on Ubuntu Karmic

I think 40GB of hardisk is abit overkill for me. And 2GB of RAM is kinda limiting for virtual machines. Well, despite all that, I’m going to have fun first and then think. That’s the way to go in this crazy days. You’ll never know when you’re going to be hit with molokov cocktails….

DNS resolving to 1.0.0.0

// November 27th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // guides, tech

I’ve had the most peculiar thing happened today at home. I think it’s Karmic issue since I never had this problem before.

Well what happened was, I was unable to browse the internet (Firefox and Chrome both had problems but Opera worked fine). Pinging worked. Other Windows machines didn’t have problems at all. Sudo apt-get update didn’t worked because it was looking up 1.0.0.0 for every mirrors I tried. I tried this with Firefox at first:

In address bar, type in about:config, filter for ipv6. There should be only 1 listed – network.dns.disableIPv6. Double click to change the value to true. Problems solved for Firefox.

I continued googling around and did this:

#in /etc/resolv.conf, changed nameserver to those of streamyx
#previously it was 192.168.1.1 which points to my router
#Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 202.188.0.133

And now everything works again. Only that if I reboot it will change back to 192.168.1.1

Html Validator on FF3.5 on Karmic

// November 2nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // guides

Note to self:

[1] Add PPA https://launchpad.net/~bdrung/+archive/ppa
[2] sudo apt-get update
[3] sudo apt-get source htmlvalidator
[4] change 3.1.* to 3.5.* (in xpi/install.rdf.in, change maxVersion 3.1.* to 3.5.*)
[5] Install some build dependencies – libxul-dev
[6] in htmlvalidator directory, ./configure and make
[7] open up just created .xpi in FF, install

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What’s been keeping me busy

// October 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // lament

1. MIT http://www.ukm.my/kembangan
2. MyGOSSCON http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my
3. MyMeeting http://trac.oscc.org.my/mymeeting
4. FOSS.my http://foss.my
5. OSDC.my http://osdc.my
6. Ubuntu-MY http://www.ubuntu.com.my
7. FOSSchix.my http://fosschix.my
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Translation project

// September 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // open source

Ok so since e-jat, as the Ubuntu-MY president, has been pestering people for the Ubuntu translation project (heh no offense), I clicked on the link provided in his identi.ca post one day. And that brings me to this post’s topic.

The translation page.

I’ve been doing it for a while now, and it’s kinda fun(ny) translating English to Malay. I only armed myself with wiki and kamus dewan (go go online dictionary!). One can only wonders how to translate “Headers and Footers” or “Plug and Play” (thanks Eric for the idea haha!). Sometimes I just settle with sentences that can make sense, it doesn’t have to be translated literally, or word by word. So far I haven’t faced any major difficulties yet, only minor setbacks, like I couldn’t find the translation for some very techie word in malay but that’s ok. I’ll leave it to the reviewers muahahaha!
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