Monthly Archives: May 2008

Trying to get the Belkin F5D8053 v3 to work on Ubuntu Hardy without ndiswrapper

Update: I got it working now, see my new post about it. If I look at the Windows driver for my new Belkin F5D8053 it is based on the RT2870 chipset. There is a native driver available for this chipset. … Continue reading

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VMware and Virtual PC images continued

A few days ago I wrote about VMware and the Virtual PC images. I said that it’s not a problem that you don’t have the Windows CD, and that you just had to press cancel when requested. This was only … Continue reading

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PHP Acceleration with eAccelerator

With high traffic sites, performance issue’s rise. Now one of the solutions is to use an opcode caching mechanism for PHP. There are two mainstream open source solutions for that, APC and eAccelerator. And there is Zend platform and Zend … Continue reading

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Using VMware player for testing Internet Explorer on Ubuntu

One disadvantage of developing websites/web applications on Unix (in my case Ubuntu) is that it’s hard to test things on Internet Explorer. Yes, you have IEs4Linux but that’s just not the same thing. For real testing with the different versions … Continue reading

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