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Imagine this, you’re in class, at work, wherever, and you give a Linux distro to a buddy.  Out of nowhere, you are tackled by Knoxville’s finest and thrown in jail for illegally distributing software without paying for it! Well, it’s not that bad, but it is that stupid.

From PC PRO News:

A teacher has thrown a student into detention and threatened to call the police for using Linux in her classroom.The teacher spotted one of her students giving a demonstration of the HeliOS distro to other students. In a somewhat over-the-top reaction, she confiscated the CDs, put the student on detention and whipped off a letter to the HeliOS Project threatening to report it to the police for distributing illegal software.

“I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom,” writes the teacher, identified only as Karen.

 

“At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows.

Of course, the guys from Helios wrote a reply. Here’s an excerpt:

“Please…investigate to your heart’s content. Linux is a free as-in-cost and free as-in-license operating system. It was designed specifically for those purposes…

“I don’t know when you attended college Karen but the Linux of even two years ago pales in feature and ability to what there is available now… and that in turn will pale in a year’s time. Linux is superior to Microsoft Windows in so many ways, they are too numerous to mention here.”

Wow, what a moron.

All this talk about insubordination makes me wanna get my criminal on. I’m about to do something totally illegal! Here’s a link to the newest release of Ubuntu, 8.10.

Tags: 8.10, illegal, linux, ubuntu

Apparently Japan got the demo for Resident Evil 5, but no one else did. That’s ok, because you can download it and burn it to a disc!

Just fire up your favorite torrent program and go to this link for the torrent file.

After it is done downloading, simply the Content directory to a DVD and pop it in your 360. Navigate to the Game Library and it should be there. Best part is, its all in English.

UPDATE: You may need to disconnect from XBL and all profiles to run this demo.

Enjoy!

Tags: Demo, Resident Evil 5, US

This guide assumes some things:

• That you already have the initial machine that you want to clone built and fully functional.
• The initial machine is named Host1
  

The easiest way that I have found to do this is as follows:

Cloning the .vmdk file:

1. Shut down the host machine (the machine to be cloned).
2. Log on to the VMWare ESX Server Console (either physically or SSH) as root or a user who is able to su (for this example, I am using root).
3. Navigate to the directory in which all of your VMs are located, usually something like /vmfs/volumes/storage/
   

   cd /vmfs/volumes/storage

4. Make new directories for the new virtual machines; e.g. Host2, Host3, etc.
   

   mkdir Host2 Host3

5. Navigate into the inital host’s directory and make note of the .vmdk filename (Note: do NOT use the *-flat.vmdk file).
   

   cd Host1
   ls -l *.vmdk

6. We will use the command “vmkfstools” in the following way to clone Host1 to Host2.
   

   vmkfstools -i Host1.vmdk ../Host2/Host2.vmdk

7. After the clone is complete, make sure that you log off of your console session. This is an important step. If you do not log off, you cannot select the disk in the next set of steps to complete the creation of the new virtual machine.

Creating the Cloned Virtual Machine:

1. Log in to your VMWare Infrastructure Client and begin the “Create a new Virtual Machine” wizard by right clicking on your VMWare domain and selecting “New Virtual Machine…” or on the Getting Started tab, select “Create a new virtual machine”.
2. For the Wizard Type select “Custom”.
3. Name your virtual machine appropriately. For this example, we will name ours Host2.
4. Select the appropriate Datastore. Our example’s datastore is “storage”.
5. Select the appropriate Guest Operating System.
6. Configure the appropriate CPU, Memory, Network, and I/O Adapters information.
7. On the Select a Disk section, choose “Use an Existing Virtual Disk”. This will allow you to browse to the Host2.vmdk that was created. Navigate to and select the Host2.vmdk file.
8. Enjoy!

So that’s it, simple right?

Google’s new browser, Chrome, has been released for download in a beta version.

My first impression: slower than FireFox. 

http://www.google.com/chrome

Edit: Also has no idea what to do with a .pdf.