TheKSmith (About That…) Hobbies, Life & Random Goodies

22Dec/112

installing Linux Mint 12 inside a virtual machine running on Windows 7 64-bit using the free VMware Player (and configuring VMware Tools)

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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17Dec/111

Death Burro part 6: into the (corporate) wild…

DeathBurro was released as 1.0.0.0 beta yesterday!

beta = coded till the last minute and didn't test

i took donkey into Aimee’s work during her department’s Christmas lunch. we had a little trouble getting on the network, all were either secured with EAP-TLS or browser login & terms-acceptance pages. there are ways to make this work, and so we’ll get it going eventually.…

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20May/110

Death Burro, an embedded programming & hardware interface experiment

i call him Death Burro

make the donkey light-up when someone breaks the build” – that’s how it all started….

 

backstory

so my GF Aimee is a Software QA – at her work they have an internal application named Death Burrito which has a donkey logo (that’s it’s own story). so i guess this actually started when someone bought one of those little road-side welded metal-art sculptures of a donkey in for the team.…

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