Comments for Mikes Thoughts

Comment on VirtualBox and VMware Player by Abhijeet Singh

Abhijeet Singh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:47:14 +0000

What about Unity Mode Ubuntu Menu on the corner? When I install an applications as of say Google Chrome its running fine but its wasn’t showing in the Unity Mode Ubuntu Menu. I couldn’t find even the setting option to change the menu items of the Unity Mode Ubuntu menu. I even restarted the Guest OS Ubuntu and restarted VMWare also. Is there any way we can add installed applications icons in the the Unity mode menu?

Comment on Ipod Touch 64gb versus Archos 5 by mac guy

mac guy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:18:17 +0000

try floola win, if you don’t like itunes. And do your homework young man.

Comment on Want to sync a wiki? by Erica

Erica — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:50:33 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Mike! We love to hear how BitNami helps to make people’s lives a little easier

Comment on Chapter Two of the iPad Experience by Michael Perry

Michael Perry — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:13:35 +0000

I hate it because it could have been so much more than a glorified phone. They could have released a truly disruptive device which would have risen the ante on future devices. Instead we get a glorified ipod touch. I just think people should ask for more from them. They charge so much for their stuff and yet they really don’t innovate on a platform change like this.

Real thing is that now the competition have this huge hole. Its no struggle to invent something which can launch two programs at a time, can have a SD slot, perhaps a USB slot. Netbooks have been doing that for awhile.

So, yeah. I hate it.

Comment on Chapter Two of the iPad Experience by R Deepak

R Deepak — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:37:57 +0000

You must really really hate it..

Comment on Vmware ESXi Whitebox Fun, Fancies, Challenges by Erick

Erick — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:53:26 +0000

Are you make tests running raid on this RAID controller ?

Comment on New Vmware Player by M

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:39:33 +0000

I have tried both and to me both are nice. I’m going to experiment with Wine as well, since I’ll be using Ubuntu as my regular OS. The only thing holding me back was the dual screen thing and I got that figured out.

Comment on Information Repo’s on the Go by Oleg

Oleg — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:05:08 +0000

There is an iPhone client for MS OneNote, so it’s not locked into one OS anymore. It’s named MobileNoter – you can find it in the AppStore or on Google.

Comment on Internet Connection Sharing on the Cheap by R Deepak

R Deepak — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:18:51 +0000

For me even normal DHCP over the wired link has stopped working. I need to restart the network manually everytime.

Maybe it is a KDE-NetworkManager specific configuration bug

Comment on Internet Connection Sharing on the Cheap by Michael Perry

Michael Perry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:22:05 +0000

Just for the record; here’s the working method with a few comments that uses iptables and forwarding:

Configure the ethernet interface and iptables. In this case I am receiving hotel internet on wifi and want to share my primary ethernet. Run the following commands:

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 # or whatever you want to give it.

sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -m conntrack –ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT #watch the line wrap here. But this forwards traffic from eth0 to wlan0

sudo iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack –ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE

sudo sh -c “echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward”

These commands setup iptables and tell the ubuntu system to do ip forwarding. Make sure the crossover cable is plugged in. I’ve tested this on windows 7 professional and ubuntu and it works much better than the network mangler method I first discussed.