i’ve been playing with several Linux distros lately, running them as virtual machines with Windows 7 64bit as my host OS. my first attempts at getting the latest Ubuntu (11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”) and then Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” installed and fully working with VMware tools were a little chaotic. so i thought i would document the process for any other VMware/Linux newbies.…
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the favicon.ico
works in Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome (and others). also works in Windows when dragging a shortcut to the desktop.
if you windows desktop support, embedd a 32×32 and 48×48 pixel version in the same .ico file
if, like most people, the art if tiny icon creation is baffles you – the simplest solution is to use one of the many web tools that take a normal picture and create the .ico for you.…
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if you Google “ubuntu java sdk install” you’ll see i’m not the only one that wasn’t sure the “right” way to get the official Sun/Oracle Java SDK onto Ubuntu. Ubuntu has it’s own “standard” JDK and that just confuses things if you’re after the Sun version.
you can of course download a file directly from Oracle.…
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