VMware player on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

I recently upgraded my office computer from Gusty to Hardy and VMware player stopped working for me. I looked around a bit and found a nice step-by-step guide to get it up and running. Here are the steps:

  1. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
  2. cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
  3. sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar
  4. cd vmmon-only/include/
  5. sudo vi vcpuset.h
  6. change line 74 from: #include “asm/bitops.h” to: #include “linux/bitops.h”
  7. rm vmmon.tar (return to the folder where you decompressed the tar file)
  8. sudo tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
  9. sudo rm -rf vmmon-only/
  10. sudo
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Posted at 7pm on 05/05/08 | 3 comments | Filed Under: Linux/Unix

Hemingwayex 1.1 is finally here

I have finally found time now and then in the past three weeks and tweaked HemingwayEx to work with Wordpress 2.3+ and Wordpress 2.5. I have fixed a lot of small issues here and there with CSS and the PHP code. I also added few more options to make the theme even more customizable. One can now choose to enable/disable sidebars, post navigation, excerpts on homepage, font resizer. Also, I have added in-built support

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Posted at 11pm on 04/29/08 | 4 comments | Filed Under: Applications