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History of my bash commands

?arstan@blacky:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
40 ssh
38 ping
35 su
23 sudo
22 ls
18 vlc
12 cd
10 ifconfig
10 cat
9 axel
This is my daily work laptop. Running xubuntu 8.0.4.1
What’s yours?

How to install VMware Server on Ubuntu 8.04

Another note to myself.

wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd
tar -xzvf VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib && ./vmware-install.pl
ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 && ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

That’s it.

Received a book from Packt Publishing

Sometime ago Rebecca from Packt Publishing sent me an email asking if I would review their recently launched  book on Scalix titled ‘Scalix: Linux Administrator’s Guide’.
Yesterday I found the postal package on my table, it was from them.
I did go through the book roughly, I find it quite useful as a reference in your bookshelf. [...]

How to setup Windows VPN in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
sudo killall nm-applet
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
nm-applet –sm-disable &
Then configure your Microsoft VPN Connections in Network Manager. It’s the one on top right corner.

How to install libssh2 with PHP on CentOS 5 x86_64

This post is just for archiving it, if you find it useful I’m glad!
If you are dealing with CentOS 5 x86_64 (Free version of RHEL5), try to install libssh2 for your PHP development you might fail in doing so.
So here’s a quick tip how to install libssh2 on X86_64 systems(I think i386 works just fine)
Edit: [...]