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Mon, Apr 13, 2009

VMWare on Ubuntu 8.10

Posted at 9:58 pm MDT to Technology

VMWare server wasn't passing CTRL-ALT-DEL to windows clients since I upgraded Ubuntu to 8.10. (I was able to log in to my RedHat 5 client, so I could tell that the basic keyboard handling was not broken.)

I checked for vmware update and upgraded to VMWare Server 2.0.1, but that did not fix the problem.

Googling the ubuntu forums, I found a note that "The solution is to add "xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true" to ~/.vmware/config or to /etc/vmware/config".

Once I made the change and restarted VMWare (the restart may not have been necessary) I was able to get into my Windows clients.

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Muggy

Posted at 8:04 pm MDT to Weather

I awoke this morning to darkness and thunder. The sun came out for a while at midday, but mst of the day was cloudy.

I would be miserable in this climate without airconditioning, and even with it, I find things unpleasantly humid. I'm glad there is only another month on this contract. If this is what the Gulf Coast is like in April, I shudder at the thought of June.

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