SurlyJake » Jaunty http://www.surlyjake.com Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:28:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error. http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/08/vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/08/vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:43:23 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=528 Ran into this while running under . I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a ‘vmware-vmx’ process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends ‘signal 9′ to the process. When sent to a program, causes it to terminate immediately. In contrast to and SIGINT, this signal cannot be caught or ignored. For more information: more sigkill info.

 -s9 vmware-vmx

After that, I was able to start up the virtual machine without issue.

]]> http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/08/vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error/feed/ 9 In Ubuntu Jaunty, shift, ctrl,alt, and caps lock buttons stop working http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/07/in-ubuntu-jaunty-shift-ctrlalt-and-caps-lock-buttons-stop-working/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-ubuntu-jaunty-shift-ctrlalt-and-caps-lock-buttons-stop-working http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/07/in-ubuntu-jaunty-shift-ctrlalt-and-caps-lock-buttons-stop-working/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:45:03 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=511 This appears to be related to , to correct: open up the , and type:
. Thats it.

]]> http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/07/in-ubuntu-jaunty-shift-ctrlalt-and-caps-lock-buttons-stop-working/feed/ 0 Pidgin OSD pop ups in Ubuntu Jaunty http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/07/pidgin-osd-pop-ups-in-ubuntu-jaunty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pidgin-osd-pop-ups-in-ubuntu-jaunty http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/07/pidgin-osd-pop-ups-in-ubuntu-jaunty/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:17:52 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=508 You can remove or the pop up’s that you see from . Buddies logging on/off, and in my case, new messages. I didn’t want every new message i receive to be blasted up on the desktop . To control what you see there, Pull up your window (buddy window, not your conversation box), then: Tools -> Plugins -> . When you have selected the libnotify pop-ups, click on “configure plug-in”. That will give you some check boxes to customize the behaviour

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