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Run Kate as root: :# kdesu kate ~ts

To enable Remote Desktop of a remote computer change the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections Set the value of this key to 0. Note that you have to connect to remote computer using Registry Editor, thus say, File | Connect Network Registry. ~technos

This is only a test of formatting source code in Blogger. See http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ for details. Use Notepad++ when copying source over from clipboard. Option Explicit Sub Main() Include "Common.TWin32TreeView" Dim wtv As TWin32TreeView 'Window("Desktop Window").Attach Window("Application=Explorer.exe ClassName=CabinetWClass TypeName=Window").Attach Set wtv = New TWin32TreeView wtv.Handle = TreeView("Index=1").hwnd Dim sMsg As String sMsg = "Root item is " & wtv.GetRootItemText sMsg = sMsg & vbCrLf & "Selected item is : " & wtv.GetSelectedItemText 'MsgBox sMsg If wtv.IsSelectedItemExpanded Then MsgBox "selected node is expanded" Else MsgBox "it is not yet expanded" End If End Sub

Backup MBR (master boot record) :#/ dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/tmp/mbr-sda.bak bs=512 count=1 ~ts~

:#/ apt-cache search [package name] -> searches for a package :#/ apt-get clean -> cleans the cached installed packages :#/ apt-get insall [package name] -> install a package :#/ apt-get update -> synchronize the package index files from their sources :#/ apt-show-versions -> shows the version of the installed package

World wide mirror sites ( link ) After installing the base system, do the following. For main Debian repository hostname:/# nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list #more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free Hongkong is best for my case too: #more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free Notice that we added backports URL in sources.list. That's where open-vm-tools are currently hosted. Continue with installing the rest of the software: :/# wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - :/# apt-get update :/# apt-get install less  Depen

 This can be fixed by adding the following line in .vmx of the guest virtual machine. svga.enableOverlay = "FALSE" References: http://communities.vmware.com/message/978732?tstart=15 http://communities.vmware.com/message/905156#905156 ~ts~