VMWare Tools Install Error – The path “/usr/bin/gcc” is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Recently I cloned a Debian virtual machine from an ESX 4 host and copied it to a laptop for local use in VMWare Player. After moving a VM to such a different environment I fully expected to have to reinstall vmware-tools. So I mounted the vmware-tools by selecting “Install VMWare Tools” from the player menu, [...]
Get To Know An Earthling: Ben
Benton Jackson is one of two “old hacks” at Blue Earth. He’s been programming since junior high, in the days of paper tape on a 110 baud teletype. He learned early that good code organization was important, so when “structured programming” was invented it was quite natural. Much later, when he found out about “object [...]
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Netbeans 7 with(out) Subversion 1.7
This week I reinstalled my OS (long overdue!) and while I was at it got the latest releases of many pieces of software I use. These updates included both NetBeans 7.0.1 and TortoiseSVN 1.7.1. Then I used TortioseSVN to check out a project and opened the project in NetBeans. The next time I started NetBeans [...]
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Get To Know An Earthling: Sebastian
At various points, Sebastian has flirted equally with technology, art, and construction. His current love for web development spawned as the result of playing web games where he began hacking them to add functionality – first via URL inputs and eventually with scripting, allowing such lulz as a shotgun wielding zombie in the game “Urban Dead”. A fuller appreciation [...]
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