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6 January 2011
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Fix GConf Exception Failed to contact configuration server with dbus-launch

The easiest fix is to fix the permissions or delete the .dbus directory from your home directory. If this doesn’t work, run the offending application with dbus-launch which forces a new dbus session bus to spawn for this application. Don’t skip the option or you’ll end up with multiple dbus sessions left running in no time.

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5 May 2010
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VirtualBox can’t operate in VMX root mode

VirtualBox can’t operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot. You might see this VirtualBox error when trying to start a virtual machine or create a new one.

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15 May 2009
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Bitfrost Security Platform for the OLPC XO Laptop

The model has strong principals, but the goals blow my mind. I’ll explain in a minute, check out the principles first.

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15 April 2009
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Find your partitions and kernel from the GRUB command line

You may find that grub is pretty useless when your menu.lst is missing or misconfigured. It’s not easy to figure out how to make grub tell you where the files are that you need. Here’s how to find what you need in order to boot, just using the grub bootloader.

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12 February 2009
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Gaining shell access to a VMware ESXi server

Accessing the hidden VMware ESXi service console was supposed to be done only while working directly with a VMware technician, but it’s just so darn handy when you’re a command line junkie, that how can you resist right?

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