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(Nerd) Error: Unable to install Fedora 12 on a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine

14 comments By jared.folkins Filed in Fedora, VMware December 7th, 2009 @

I tried to install an instance of Fedora 12 on a virtual machine using VMware Fusion. I used the virtual machine to boot from the .iso and it took me to the Graphical installation. Unfortunately when I double clicked the icon to install, nothing would happen.

fedora12_install

Some simple troubleshooting follows.

Right clicked on ‘install to Hard Drive’ icon and selected properties.

install_to_harddrive_properties

Looked at the path of the application

liveinst_path

Closed the ‘Install to Hard Drive Properties’ window, and opened up a terminal session

fedora_terminal

Ran the following command

/usr/bin/liveinst

It gave me an error concerning ‘/media/*: not found’ and then it  showed me the real issue.

You do not have enough RAM to use the graphical installer.

fedora_no_memory

So I went looking for the minimum requirements and found this from Fedora’s site.

1.2.2. Processor and memory requirements for x86 Architectures

The following CPU specifications are stated in terms of Intel processors. Other processors, such as those from AMD, Cyrix, and VIA that are compatible with and equivalent to the following Intel processors, may also be used with Fedora. Fedora 12 requires an Intel Pentium Pro or better processor, and is optimized for i686 and later processors.

Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium Pro or better
Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium Pro or better
Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128 MiB
Minimum RAM for graphical: 192 MiB
Recommended RAM for graphical: 256 MiB

I know that my Virtual Machine was setup for 256mb of RAM but I guess that wasn’t enough

SOLUTION: I powered down my virtual machine and increased the RAM to 512mb, rebooted, and the problem was solved.

Bernanke is a joke

0 comments By jared.folkins Filed in bend, Economy, housing, Life, oregon, Politics Tagged with , , , , , , , , , December 4th, 2009 @

This whole financial disaster is just a crock! Hop in the way back machine and travel with me to an age of kool-aid and greed.

Back in 05′ I was just a wee grass hopper, only twenty four years of age. And the world was a hustling and a bustling. Everywhere, people were going a million miles a minute, especially in Bend Oregon.

If you were to ask the people around you what they were running around so much for, the would have answered, “Well, I’m building wealth of course”. And as I have mentioned before on this blog, everyone was chiming the same freaking lines. The most basic of which was “BUY REAL ESTATE”.

“But why?” I would ask.

“Kid, haven’t you heard? Real estate only goes up.” they would all say.

So what does a guy like me do? I research the crap out of the housing market, which leads me to try and understand economics and markets in general (stock, emerging, etc). I realise that things “are not adding up” and soon conclude that we have a serious bubble on our hands. And it will not end well.

Also, I ended up warning my friends (or trying to). But did any of my friends listen to me? Nope. I even went so far as to write a program to scrape housing data from the county website to prove my stupid point. And what do most of my friends face today? Either foreclosures, short sales, or high mortgage payments.

And so I sit with my little munchkin in my arms and wonder. If little ol’ Jared could see what was happening, why couldn’t Ben Bernanke? And I’ll tell you why, because Ben Bernanke is a frickin joke.

28 years to kill narcissism

0 comments By jared.folkins Filed in Uncategorized Tagged with , , , , , December 3rd, 2009 @

For all these years I have pursued myself. This is something that I think most people don’t even realize they are doing. And I have had a lot of extra time to think lately, as I hold and rock my daughter at night. So I boiled life’s choices down to the following list.

    • Serve yourself
    • Serve yourself while purposely serving another
    • Serve yourself and coincidentally serve another
    • Serve another

      I never realized, how much I thought I was giving to others, when in actuality the decision was still rooted (foundationally) in me. My desires aligned with theirs, and so I could get what I want as well as help another.

      That is until Gracie got here. She is what the word sacrifice was built on. Along with love, joy, exhaustion, worry, peace, fear, and happiness. I had twenty-eight years to get into myself, but it only took one minute for my daughter to unwind it all. She will not only have the best and worst of me. She will get all of me. The good and the bad, the smiles and the warts, and though its a wee bit scary, I am ok with that.

      I love you Gracie.

      -daddy

      gracie

      (Nerd) Ubuntu 9.10 + installing wireshark

      13 comments By jared.folkins Filed in Networking, Ubuntu Tagged with , , , , , , December 2nd, 2009 @

      From the command line

      1

      sudo apt-get install wireshark

      Once the process completes, wireshark will be installed. The only problem is that if you open the wireshark application, there will not be any physical eth(N) devices to sniff. So how do we remedy this?

      Open the application ‘Main Menu’

      PathToMainMenu

      Select wireshark properties

      SelectWiresharkProperties

      We need to change the command from this
      Wireshark

      To this
      GksudoWireshark

      And what is the reason? Well the ethernet or wireless devices we are after are owned by root. So if we tack on the gksudo command to the front of the wireshark init command, we are effectively opening wireshark as root. With all the implied responsibilities and permissions, make sense?

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