Daily Archives: 6/14/2006

Creating VMware images with VMware player

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/14/2006
I have a short article up on NewsForge today about creating VMware images using VMware Player. This might be useful if you don't have the money for VMware Workstation, and don't feel like messing with a full-blown VMware Server install. For me, it was mostly just fun to figure out how to do it, and I [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, Writing | 2 Comments

New Gaim 2.0 beta 3 packages -- now for Dapper Drake!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/14/2006
Since Dapper is out now, I've had a request for an amd64 package of the Gaim 2.0 beta 3 for Dapper. I'm throwing in a x86 package at no additional charge. Should be stable, but standard caveats apply -- may be unstable, eat your data, or otherwise do terrible nasty things to your computer. If [...]
Posted in Linux, Open Source, Vim, Writing | 5 Comments

More Vim goodness

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/14/2006
Another Vim tips piece is up on Linux.com today, this time I covered mappings and abbreviations. I make heavy use of mappings and abbreviations for several things, correcting common typos (like thier instead of their, or teh instead of the), long names or names with foreign characters when I'm writing a news story with several [...]
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