On building a new system in VMware, frequently there are additional things you need to install.  In addition to installing the VMware tools, there are certain dependencies that need to be added as well.  These include make, gcc, and the kernel libraries.  These can be done with the following commands:

On a recent upgrade from Drupal (information at http://www.drupal.org) v4.6.x to v5.1, I discovered that many of my "protected" pages were again publicly accessible.  Since I'd already done the conversion on my production drupal instance, this was of some concern to me, but due to time constraints there was little I could do about it.  Since my time was at a premium, I wasn't able to look at it until Thursday night (July 26th), after doing the conversion the prior weekend.  That's when I discovered tha

I recently ran into a problem where I was unable to successfully burn a DVD (Digital Video Disk) .ISO file. (NOTE: Some documentation may refer to a DVD as a Digital Versatile Disk instead of a Digital Video Disk. Both are correct. The term Digital Video Disk is more commonly used because it is the format for watching movies.) For those who may not be aware, an .ISO file is an image of a data CD (Compact Disk) or DVD.

Now that I have explained virtualization, the question remains of why would anyone use it?

Everywhere you turn, IT professionals are talking about virtualization as the next big wave in technology. People banter around the terms Virtualization, Virtual PC, VMware, and others. But while IT people debate virtualizing computers, many people don't understand the concept, or why it's even needed.