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Archive for May, 2008

Using VMWare when not connected to LAN

As you might have noticed in VMWare the default network mode is “Bridged”, which means that your VMWare guest OS will behave as a separate computer with its own IP address. It’s all good except one thing – it requires your PC (on which VMWare is running) to be connected to a LAN. In other words, the network adapter of your computer must have an IP address assigned, otherwise you wont get VMWare networking to work.

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List of useful CentOS commands

Below is a list of common commands in CentOS that I tend to forget:

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Mindquarry under CentOS: mod_perl2 and LWP::Agent dependancies

If you, like me, got to the point where you have Mindquarry installed on your linux distribution together with Java Runtime but still can not run Mindquarry successfully and the error says something like:

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Setting environment variables in CentOS

If you are using Bash as your terminal, here’s what you need to do:

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Install VMWare Tools (Host – Windows, Guest – Linux)

Install software needed by VMware Tools

Note: you need to boot the 1-1 kernel from grub for this to work. Then:

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Checkout SVN repository on another host using SSH on a custom port

Let’s say you want to checkout from your svn repository that is running on the remote host and on that host the port used for ssh is not the default (port 22).

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Hints collection for a quick start with EC2 and S3

The following instructions are for a Windows environment.

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Manually start a service in CentOS

To manually start a service in CentOS, for example service httpd start, use the following:

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Convert Propel object to Array

To convert a Propel object (a database row representation) to a normal array use the following:

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