Jan 13, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Enable Virtualization on Dell Optiplex 755 to run Oracle VirtualBox 4

Recently I ran into an issue when working on creating a test cluster environment for Windows 2008 R2 with Oracle VirtualBox running on Fedora 16 64 bit on a Dell Optiplex 755. The issue was VirtualBox would complain about VT-x/AMD-V not being enabled and would stop the VM from loading. After doing some digging around found that there is a specific setting in the BIOS to enable what is needed to enable the... read more

Dec 28, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.d on CentOS 5.7

Recently I was given the privilege of presenting to Northern Kentucky Linux Users Group on installing Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.d on CentOS 5.7. I have attached the presentation to the post and it can be downloaded from alfresco_presentation. The presentation was created with LibreOffice 3.4 Impress. read more

Dec 24, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Install Darktable on Fedora 15

If you are a photographer you probably work with RAW images and many other images. There are not many programs available for Linux that are really good for managing and editing out there, but they are growing. One such program is Darktable. Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. In manages your digital negatives... read more

Dec 23, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Install Virtualbox 4.1.8 Fedora 15

Recently I wanted to add a small network to test Windows 2008 clusters and to use for training for Windows 2008 R2 certification. To do this with minimal costs I looked to virtualization. To do that I had to install Virtualbox or VMWare Workstation. While VMWare workstation is great, it costs money., so Virtualbox is the way to go. This post describes how to install Virtualbox on Fedora 15. Look for... read more

Dec 23, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Mounting a NAS read / write on Fedora 12 +

Recently upgraded my NAS and had an issue where I could mount the device on Fedora but would only in Read Only mode.  For my purpose I was mounting with a script to my home directory but wanted to add it to a directory called share on my root in read / write mode by adding it to /etc/fstab after figuring out why I could not write to the directory. Part of the solution is to add UID and GID of my id,... read more