Entries Categorized as 'Mods'

VMWare Sphere 5 Boot Delay

Date January 30, 2012

Note, this is a WhiteBox setup so not all parts are officially supported by VMWare. Specs below… i7 2600K Gigabyte P67A-UD4 B3 8GB DDR3-1866hz 9-9-9 1TB Samsung F3 drives Intel Gigabit Network card Now, the issue here is that after a clean install of VMWare Sphere 5, boot-up would take at least 5-9 min to [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 Server ACPI/APM Support

Date August 17, 2011

Advance Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) or APM ( Advance Power Management ) support for Ubuntu 10.04 was not installed by default after server installation.  I needed this so that during power outage I can just press the power button to automatically shutdown the PC. sudo aptitude install acpi acpi-support apm This will install the [...]

Enable Built-in Intel 82579 Based Ethernet Card in Intel DH61WW Motherboard under Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS

Date August 7, 2011

82579 based Ethernet network cards are only supported in Kernel 2.6.36 and up, thus Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will not have out-of-the-box support for the network card. I needed this to work since I’ll be using this as my server and 11.04 is not LTS, I have no choice. To fix this with the motherboard I have from [...]

Java 5 JDK and Jakarta Tomcat 5.5 in Ubuntu Server Installation

Date September 13, 2008

These are the steps I took to install Jakarta Tomkat 5.5 in conjunction with Java 2 SDK in Ubuntu server. Login as root, you can also use “su” though I prefer to login as root. apt-get install sun-java5-jdk This will install Java 2 SDK (1.5), ubuntu will start downloading packages that are not found in [...]