I recently installed Ubuntu desktop: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS bionic:
root@UBUNTU-DESKTOP:/home/tokunbo# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
I gathered that the method of configuring/setting up manual IPs on Ubuntu 18.04 has changed / is very different from other Ubuntu versions. Here is a sample tutorial: how to configure IP-address in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
I decided instead to configure manual
I got below error after trying to import a Kali-Linux appliance downloaded from the Kali Linux Virtual Images page
Error reading OVA '<dir here>/kali-linux-2019.2-vbox-i386.ova' (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS).
Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:
ApplianceWrap
Interface:
IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}
vbox-error-appliance-wrap
To fix this, first extract the .ova content and then compress again as follows:
1) command: tar xvf filename.ova ....... where
Got this error while trying to do an RDP into a Windows Server 2012, R2.
A google search and information found led me to install a below Microsoft Update on my server.
I was looking to split my Debian desktop screen, tile my windows the way I want. Here is how I got it done.
Launch Windows Manager, click on Keyboard-Tab,
Scroll down via the 'Action' column to the "Tile Window" settings.
To set the "ShortCut setting", double click on each Action and Press your shortcut key-combination.
Window Manager(before)
Windows Manager (after)
Note: Control+Super+Left....where Super is the Windows-Key
Here is my desktop view: firefox on the left and chrome on
After installing a Guest-OS, I tried to increase the screen-resolution(using the arrow key at the lower-right corner of the virtual-box guest OS screen)... to fit into my host. Here is a screenshot of the error I got:
A little googling around and I found a nifty command that solved the issue:
Log into the Guest-OS, and as root, use this:
command: apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms
Blogdesk is my tool of choice for updating my many blogs. Today, I get the error below:
An error occured while uploading the Post.
Error uploading images
XML Parser has reported a WININET.dll error, description is:12029 - A connection with the server could not be established.
A little troubleshooting: I found out that I had browser proxy settings configured in Internet Explorer. Removing this and using IEs default setting partially solved the problem.
Other information I found online
Download Cisco Packet Tracer into a directory. Packet tracer6.3 for both Windows & Linux is available here: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~kotfid/packettracer/
Unpack the file into a directory of your choice.
command: tar -zxvf PacketTracer63_linux.tar.gz
'cd' into the directory(cpt63 - for example)
command: chmod +x /cpt63
command: ./install
First prompt: do you accept the terms of the EULA? (Y/N)
- type 'Yes' and then press Enter-key
Another prompt will appea regarding the location to install
A very easy way to get your virtual machine environment up and running is via pre-configured images. VirtualBox supports images of a hard disk.
OSBOXES provides freely downloadable images of almost all linux distros, which can be easily imported into VirtualBox.
1) Download your preferred OSBOX image from here:
https://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/
In this tutorial, I downloaded Ubuntu Server 16.04.5(32-bit) from here: https://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu-server/
2) Unpack the image file: a
I just installed Google Earth on my Debian desktop.
PROCEDURE
1) download google earth for i386 and place in a directory of your choice:
command: wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
2) unpack and install
command: dpkg -i google-earth-stable*.deb
Selecting previously unselected package google-earth-pro-stable.
(Reading database ... 244286 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
Install firefox without removing Iceweasel:
download firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/#download-fx
uncompress it: tar -xjf firefox-39.0.tar.bz2
move the uncompressed folder to a directory of your choice.
create a launcher to "firefox"
thus you have Firefox and Iceweasel running at the same time.
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