Test IE virtual machines made easy

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I just have to take a minute and thank @xdissent et al. for the amazing work done on ievms. I was able to install IE 6,7,8 and 9 virtual machines without hardly any work on my part. I am running Ubuntu 12.04, and after uninstalling the virtualbox package found in the standard repository and installing… Read more »

Why is udev renaming my network interfaces?

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It was driving me nuts. I was setting up a few virtual servers and the network interfaces were not showing up. I looked in dmesg and there were some odd lines that looked like this. udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2 udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth1 It turns out that udev that… Read more »

Asus Laptop Reclaimed

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I’ve successfully installed Debian Linux on an old Asus Laptop.  My wife used it for a few years, but she was trying to use it for word processing, and a few of the keys stick every now and then.  It’s been a goal of mine to get it running a newer version of linux, but… Read more »