I've been using SketchUp via VMWare Player for a while and the software just hangs now and then even after fixing the OpenGL support issue. I happen to have another PC running Windows 7. But I ran into the OpenGL problem again while trying to use remote desktop.
more ...I recently installed a Windows 10 guest OS on my Ubuntu 16.04 host machine using VMWare Workstation 12 Player, mainly to use the Sketchup Make 2017 software. Skeckup keeps complaining lack of OpenGL support. Here's how to fix it.
more ...I recently experienced unstable DNS on my Ubuntu laptop. Here is how to configure the DNS settings so it always use the Google DNS servers first.
more ...I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04.3 on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3rd Gen laptop. However, there is no "Natural Scrolling" option for the touch pad. Here is how to fix it.
more ...Amazon Glacier is a cheap massive cloud storage solution that is mostly suitable for storing cold data - data that are rarely accessed. The price is fair: $4/TB/month. However, it's not like Dropbox or Googld Drive that has nice client programs that you can simply drag and drop the files to be stored. Instead, you'll have to work with their APIs to upload you files. In this post, I'll explain the basics about how to upload the files and also how to query the inventory.
more ...I couldn't find any solid document online. Here are the steps to configure Gerrit server to automatically start upon system boot on Ubuntu.
more ...Shared folder is a great feature of Virtualbox to share data between the host and guest OS. This post shows how to mount the shared folder during boot on a Ubuntu 16.04 guest OS running on Windows 10 host OS.
more ...Recently I needed to install tmux on a server which runs some ancient RHEL and I do not have sudo access to. Here is how I did it. In fact it has tmux 1.6 pre-installed, but my tmux configuration file is based on tmux 2.2, which contains many options that are absent in earlier versions of tmux.
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