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Xubuntu 11.10 vnc server

I've recently decided to use my desktop as a server without keyboard/screen. To accomplish that I needed a way to connect to the machine so I went off VNC hunting. After lots of research I've found a couple of useful forum posts at the Ubuntu Forum . For the sake of simplicity I summarize them here. Install x11vnc sudo apt-get install x11vnc Setup vnc password sudo x11vnc -storepasswd PaSsWoRd /etc/x11vnc.pass Configure x11vnc to start when your system starts Create /etc/init/x11vnc.conf file and add this as a content: start on login-session-start script x11vnc -display :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -forever -bg -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.pass -rfbport 5900 end script Test it with RealVNC or TightVNC It was all working fine until I noticed that the screen resolution that I wanted to use wasn't available in xfce. ie.: my screen is 1680x1050 and I've got a vnc session with 1600x1200.

Youtube: "Error Try Again" error message when posting a comment

I went mad the other day when I tried to answer to a question about one of my video posts. Every time when I tried to click on the post button it said: Error, Try Again in red. I just couldn't work out what the hell is going bad, after extensive research I found that this meaningful error message appears if you try to include a web link into your post. Don't get me wrong I don't have a problem with a policy like that, but I'd have expected the thing to tell me that what the problem is instead of: Error, Try Again.

Installation of Centos 5.5 minimal version to VirtualBox 4.0.4 vm

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Download the first iso cd for Centos 5.5 from the website http://wiki.centos.org/Download

Setup the VirtualBox vm to boot from Centos 5.5 boot image

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Creating centos virtual machine in virtualbox

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This is the first post of the series where we show how to create a centos 5.5 minimal virtual machine. Download VirtualBox from here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Install VirtualBox Create virtual machine