Installing Open Virtual Machine Tools is a nice alternative to managing and installing the vmware tools package that comes with Vmware's hypervisor products.  It allows you to use APT to manage all the dependencies and updates. Module assistant will recompile the kernel modules for you automatically when you update kernels …

Tar can redirect extracted files to a different folder. This can be handy if you want to unpack a tar archive stored on a cd or other read-only media and want to eliminate the step of first copying the archive, extracting it, then deleting the extra tar.  All you have …

Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a zombie 'vmware-vmx' process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends 'signal 9' to the process …

This appears to be related to vmware, to correct: open up the terminal, and type:

setxkbmap.

Thats it.