Update: If you are looking for patching VMware for Linux 2.6.25 Kernel – check here

Currently latest VMware Player and Workstation do not install under Linux 2.6.24 Kernel. This is a short how-to resolve the gcc/make errors that arise while configuring (vmware-configure.pl)

1. Download the latest vmware player (workstation) – currently VMware Player 2.0.2 Build 59824
   url: http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ – Read the Eula before downloading

2. tar xzvf VMware-player-2.0.2-59824.i386.tar.gz

3. cd vmware-player-distrib/

4. ./vmware-install.pl – Proceed as usual when asked to run vmware-config.pl answer NO

5. Download the latest any-any patch – currently vmware-any-any-update-116
   url: http://vm…s.googlegroups.com/web/vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz

6. tar xzvf vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz

7. cd vmware-any-any-update116

8. ./runme.pl and when asked to run vmware-config.pl answer YES

9. Configure as usual

10. Enjoy!

PS. Link is broken so I reuploaded on my hosting. Patch is presented as is and I don’t take any responsibility for it. All credits go to the author.

Anyway vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz

Today W3C released the first draft for the next generation HTML language. There are plenty of differences including lots of new semantic tags (header, footer etc) , couple of APIs (2D drawing, drag and drop, network), new events and other cool stuff. Of course the guys have done great work with revising the language structure (cleaning up some tags and attributes) and still achieving backwards compatibility. Also I liked the idea of making HTML5 a XML language.

for more info check the official pages:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/ Working Draft

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080122/ – Differences between HTML4 and HTML5

Update:

With KDE 4.1 kicking the traffic to this page has increased dramatically. So for installing KDE 4.1 on Debian unstable you have to generally follow the same instructions (add expreimental repository to your sources.list)

More instructions on the Debian KDE Team website

Today I tried the new KDE4 on my Debian Sid distribution and decided it is still not usable for everyday desktop environment. After the full of dependency issues installation I ended up with piles of software removed and yes running KDE4.

Positive:

• works noticeably faster
• cool effects
• gadgets(widgets)
• totally new experience – live previews, funky menu, new icons and theme
• new multimedia engines

Negative:

• Some effects bugs
• not compatible with some old programs – at least were uninstalled while installing KDE4

For now I will not update my main copy of Debian Unstable

Anyway short how-to if you still decide to try it yourself:

1. Backup everything – I personally copied my whole Debian partition to another one and installed there.

2. Remove all KDE and Compiz packages that are already installed otherwise you will have plenty of dependencies problems and apt shouting various errors.

3. Add deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib to your /etc/apt/sources.list

4. Do apt-get update && apt-get -t experimental install kdebase kdebase-workspace extragear-plasma kdegraphics kdegames kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdeutils kdeedu kdeadmin kdetoys kdeartwork kdesdk

Just noticed that Google has updated their tracking code some time ago and included couple of new features to the analytics service. The transitions itself is quite easy – just follow the instructions in the Google Tracking Code Migration Guide. More information about it can be found on the Analytics Blog

On 17 Jan 2008 took place the first event in Bulgaria dedicated to Adobe Flex and building RIA with it. It was well organized by Gugga and RIABG with one exception – it was in a weekly day which for sure lowered the number of visitors.

Summary of the things that were interesting to me:

1. A sneak preview of Adobe Thermo – there are couple of videos already on YouTube
   1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecRJgbdCtU
   2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAKlSE_-9o
2. Adobe Flex 3 CRUD Database Wizard
3. Couple of presentations which included good explanations for Flex databinding mechanism
4. A demo of SWFAddress deeplinking utility

Of course there were some disappointments too – there was one presentation about laptop.bg which looked like payed commercial because it didn’t showed anything connected with Flex even the site itself and one more: the guy sitting in front of me took the iPod :(

Anyway it was a good experience, I hope there will be plenty more.