If you are among those brave (foolhardy?) enough to have already updated systems to Ubuntu’s Precise Pangolin, you may have encountered the following error while updating your system over the last 24 hours or so: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-core_1%3a3.5.0~beta2-2ubuntu2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Fortunately, there is a relatively easy …
Category Archive: Computers
Jul
29
Verizon 4G MiFi Quicktest
Got my hands on a Verizon 4G LTE MiFi device to test today, so of course the first thing I did when I got home was a quick Speedtest.net check on it. First, a test of my Time Warner RoadRunner: Not bad on the download side, though one important thing to remember is that this …
Mar
20
Farewell Odin – Good Job
Something almost sad about taking a server out of circulation after all this time. But time for a new version of Ubuntu or Arch Linux. ss@odin:/$ uptime 14:36:37 up 762 days, 3:39, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01 ss@odin:/$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 7.10″
Sep
18
Ubuntu: Ten Minute Apache mod_authn_yubikey Install
The YubiKey, from Yubico is a small USB device which is about the size of a small flash drive, and which emits OTP strings when the button is depressed. The device can also be reprogrammed to offer static passwords and the new 2.0 version has a very handy management application available. The device is compatible …
Aug
01
Twitter + ttytter + perl + Prowl = iPhone Push Goodness
Version 3.0 of the Apple iPhone OS now allows push notifications. However, for security reasons (presumably), Apple requires that push notifications must flow through their server, and are only allowed to be delivered to native applications. Prowl is a new application which allows notifications to be pushed to the iPhone from applications like Growl for …
Dec
07
IPv6 Difficulties
Until my VMware server machine crashed, I had a pair of IPv6 tunnels running for many months out of a pair of virtual machines. One was Ubuntu Hardy with a tunnel to Sixxs.net, the other an OpenBSD machine with a tunnel to Hurricane Electric‘s Tunnelbroker service. Wanting to get back into the IPv6 address space, …
Jun
07
Ubuntu Hardy: The 10 Minute git Install
Since updating my laptop to Hardy Heron I had not yet installed an update git, so I thought it would be a good time for that: Install the usual prerequisites: sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev Fetch, unpack, and build: wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.3.tar.bz2 tar jxf git-1.5.5.3.tar.bz2 cd git-1.5.5.3 make prefix=/usr all Unfortunately, at this point I …
May
07
Twhirl’ing on Linux
I’m not a huge fan of some of the things Adobe has released over the last couple years, e.g. the uber-bloated Acrobat Reader, but I do like their Air product. Sadly, until a couple weeks ago it was unavailable for linux… but that has now changed! Adobe Labs have released an alpha of Adobe Air …
Feb
24
Critical VMware Security Issue on Windows Hosts
SANS are reporting today that Core Security have uncovered a critical security issue with some VMware products when the base OS is Windows. When running the VMware product versions listed below with a host-shared folders enabled (and at least one configured), it is possible for malware in the virtual machines to access the full filesystem …
Feb
09
Ubuntu Gutsy: The 10 Minute VMware Server Install
While there may be packages available for this, I’ve been using the following to install VMware Server and the Management Interface on my Ubuntu Gutsy boxes. The following steps take place immediately after a clean Gutsy Server install. Step 1: Download the software Go to http://www.vmware.com and follow the links to download the free VMware …