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Ivan Versluis June 29th, 2008

Since two weeks I am becoming Ubuntu fan and I am missing some of my windows applications. Nero is one of those and thanks to Nero they ported their burning solution for Linux also. Download the trial from Nero.com website here.

Start a  new terminal session and run dpkg to install the Linux version of Nero Burning Rom.

Go to Applications / Sound & Video/ Nero Linux and start the burning solution.

Pretty straight forward; right? Think about when installing Nero on Windows ;). First we have this 100MB+ installation source and than install the complete suite of tools; with Linux installation I get what I want.

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Tags: howto, install, linux, Nero, screenshots

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Ivan Versluis June 28th, 2008

After installing the latest updates and reboot the auto mount feature for Windows NTFS volumes and my USB disk drive failed. If you open File Browser and try to open one of your harddisks you may have same problem as I did.

Cannot mount volume. Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied. Details A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file….

I reboot the machine couple times; tried to find a solution though google but no real work around for this problem. I found one specific bug published for adding additional host in hosts file https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/242186, because /var/log/daemon.log was filling up with Jun 28 17:46:56 workstation1 console-kit-daemon[5892]: WARNING: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit events.

I got frustrated in getting my personal share online. The folder was sitting in one of my 500GB SATA disk. Right click and choosing mount volume did also fail. I opened a terminal and started to query my physical disks with:

Create new folder in /mnt/ named sda1 and manually mount the volume.

If you want to have the volumes automatically mount after each time you reboot than you need to add additional entries in /etc/fstab. The following lines were added in my fstab configuration. Make sure the folders are created in /mnt.

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Ivan Versluis June 28th, 2008

I am using the following CSS font-family setting for Networknet.nl font-family:”Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;. When opening Networknet.nl blog on a Linux machine Firefox displays my blog as show below; the fonts are not corresponding with my style sheet. Why ;)? My Ubuntu has no Lucida Grande fonts installed. Common Windows Fonts are not installed by default  on Linux and some can be installed afterwards. After installing the msttcorefonts package I was  still missing the Lucida Grande.

The msttcorefonts contain the following fonts:

• Andale Mono
• Arial Black
• Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Comic Sans MS (Bold)
• Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Impact
• Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Webdings

These can be installed with running sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts .

I found a good post how to get the Lucida Grande font but than I was forced to install wine and safari applications. If you own a Windows installation and than you can copy the fonts from your C:\Windows\Fonts directory and place them /usr/share/fonts/ttf and that’s what I did.

Don’t forget to get them configured. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. After restarting Firefox my blog was pretty much as on Windows.

Font is OK now, but still some things with spacing. Anyway this is how I quickly got my Windows fonts on Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 desktop machine.

Some links for Linux and Fonts

http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/msttcorefonts

http://www.convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html

http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html

Tags: font, howto, linux, lucida

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Ivan Versluis May 22nd, 2008

Today I hit my first problem when creating a new JeOS virtual appliance based on Ubuntu. After I mount and extract the VMWare tools; I tried to run the ./vmware-install.pl script and got the warning below.

/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config.pl
The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were
not installed by the VMware Installer.  Please remove them then run this
installer again.

vmnet
vmhgfs
vmblock
vmmon

Execution aborted.

I did not install any VMWare tools before, but somehow these VMWare modules were included in the ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386.iso file. Go to following directory and remove the mentioned directories.

cd /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-virtual/ubuntu
ls
sudo rm -r vmnet/
sudo rm -r vmhgfs
sudo rm -r vmblock
sudo rm -r vmmon

That’s all. Rerun the install script.

Tags: aborted, linux, Tools, Ubuntu, VMWare, vmware-install.pl

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