Christy Speaks

It's been a long wait, finally i have my project machine assigned in Crave lab. It's been a hard time trying to patav the new System Administrator and my project guide Mr.Gunashekar. I was very doubtful whether my request would be considered by him, knowing the fact that other groups were denied having a project PC in crave lab. Now i am happy that, i have been assigned a project PC which suits my System needs. Hip hip hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As time passes things do change. Two years back ntfs partion couldn't be mounted on Linux. Now we can, not only read the files in ntfs partion, but also write into ntfs partion thanks to ntfs-3g. ntfs-3g is the Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver for Linux. The installation of ntfs-3g is pretty simple. On debian systems just install using apt-get . $ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config Thats all, now the user needs to run just ntfs-config to enable read/write for internal and external devices.

The Linux Workshop given by me and my friend was a hit. The people liked it, since our workshop was different from the usual stuff. We emphasized more on the practical aspect of it. For Ubuntu Installation we had used vmware-server, which was appreciated by one and all. The most unique thing about our Linux Workshop was that we were the First among students & staff to use the Smart Board for Presentation. The Smart Board made the workshop more lively. The Feedback given for the 3-day workshop was inspiring too.

Vmware is good software to use though it has some limitations mainly as it not an OSS. Secondly there is this uninstallation problem, say you did not install properly or you wish to uninstall it. Here uninstalling vmware compared to other software on Ubuntu is pain especially if you dont know the specific procedure.I wanted to reinstall vmware, that's when i came across this problem. I had given up the hope, when i read on forums that others too have faced this problems. The usual method of uninstalling any software is $ sudo apt-get remove [package-name] For uninstalling vmware-server the following steps need to be followed $ sudo rm -r /etc/vmware $ sudo apt-get remove --purge vmware-server This should solve the problem usually, if it doesn't then you need to specify your problem on one of the forums.