Step by step instructions to install VMWare Server 1.0 on Ubuntu Dapper

Follow these detailed, easy steps to get VMWare Server up and running. You never know when you’re going to need to deal with some pesky file format, or sort out a problem for a friend who uses windows.

Make your own Palm Ebooks using MakeBook

I like to have an ebook on my palm, just in case I find myself waiting somewhere unexpected, and I don’t have a printed book with me. I also like reading classics and classic philosophy, which means that there’s plenty of free electronic texts around. Here’s how you can create your own ebooks in linux :

mkdir ~/installs/MakeBook
cd ~/installs/MakeBook

wget http://ereader.com/download/product/15097/makebook.tar.gz (or go to the site and read and accept the license, if you want)

unzip MakeBook\ 1.0.0.zip

tar xzvf makebook.tar.gz

java -classpath “makebook.jar” com.peanutpress.MakeBook

Point it to an input text file, and an output file, and it will generate your ebook.
You’ll also need a reader, available here.

QComicBook. A, umm, comic book reader.

If you’re a fan of comic books, you’re going to come across cbr files at some point. This is a compressed format for packaging jpegs. Going through each jpeg in a comic book would be annoying, but thankfully QComicBook transforms it from a chore to a joy – well, at least for good comics.

To install it in Dapper, simply add this to your sources.list :

deb http://qcomicbook.horisone.com/ dapper main

And then execute :

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install qcomicbook

Enjoy !