With many VM’s you can simply resize the Hard Drive and that is fine but NOT with VirtualBox, in VB you set the size when you make the drive. So.. we have to Copy.. then we have to resize the Partition.. because I’m using XP.

What you will need:

Parted Magic I can’t say enough about how much I love thee.  You only need the ISO, no need to burn it to CD. It contains both Gparted and Clonezilla.

Step #1 Shut down your VM and make a new Hard drive that is the Size you need.

Right click on your VM and Choose Properties then Storage

Step #2 Create your new Hard Drive By Clicking the the same Icon as the Hard Drive with the little + on the (it’s the one on the Right) and then Following the Wizard.

Step #3 Mount the Parted Magic ISO as the CDRom and Boot to it.

Step #4 You should at this Point see the Parted Magic Desktop..

Step #5 Use Clonezilla to Clone the Old Drive to the New One.

Step #6 Open Gparted, it’s on the Desktop as the Partition Editor.

You need to Choose the Drive you want in the Upper right and you are Going to Resize / Grow the Partition to consume the entire Drive.

Step #7 Now you need to shutdown Parted Magic, which will auto remove the ISO, then you can go back into the Properties of the VM again, Detach the OLD Hard Drive (note this doesn’t delete it.. and it’s probably huge.. to do that you use the Virtual Media Manager) and you set the New Hard Drive as the Primary Master on the Right.

Examples?

Battlestar Gallactica (the newish one and the oldish one)

Frack is more or less the word Fuck. I don’t recall any other words they may use but they really really like the Frack in the newish one..

Farscape

Frell is also Fuck.

Dren is Shit.

Firefly

Gorram = God Damn

And pretty much everything else is in Chinese like..

Yi Da Tuo Da Bian = A big pile of shit.

Go shi = Shit

Chwen = Dumbass

There are more here : http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Dictionary

Is this all? Heck no..

Star Wars has the word PooDoo, it’s Huttese, and means Shit, presumably Bantha Shit.

Red Dwarf had the word Smeg, which is like the Smurf of Cusswords..

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy listed the most horrific cuss word to ever be spoken is “Belgium”, also if you are a Vl’urg then saying “I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle” is so bad it can start a war.. with Death Floatilla.

So there.. I have to go do some Frelling work now before my Smegging Boss gets mad that I’m playing on the Frakking internet.

I cannot remember who thought it up first, I’m sure it was him, because I didn’t know what a guild was for.. I was such a n00b..  but with a little gold and my now ex, and some random people, we got a guild charter signed.  He had mispelled it as Choas Legion.. at first.. and the next day he redid it, this time as Khaos Legion. We only had like 6 people I think.. since some left just after signing the charter.. people are nice like that.  Anyhow.. James also had a friend who I think was named Gary visiting and also playing wow, I think a few days after this, James decided to leave Blackhand, and play horde with Gary, so.. I was made Guild Leader, which at first didn’t seem like a big deal, and it wasn’t. not really.

So I did what I normally do, I put up a website.. since I am pretty good at that. I think we were using PHPNuke. I was pretty fond of it at the time.. most of the guild members we had were all coworkers from my team at Dell, James came back for a little while a couple of times, Jenna (now ex), Nate, Jennifer, Mike, Honeycutt, a few others, it was great because at work I’d be able to talk to the people and we could plan things to do, We had a guild bank, which at that time was someone’s naked alt at Stormwind with some bag space. We had a Black Guild Tabard with gold trim and the Jolly Roger on the front, I miss that Tabard. lol.  From this point until we seemed to all hit 60 it felt alot like a little family, and I don’t think however hard I try to put something together like that I will ever be able to replicate it.

More later..

Lost a Girlfriend to Wow (not really.. lol)

Met My Wife on WoW.. (true story.)

Spent most of my time thru I think about 2 years playing it and running my own guild.. only to quit then come back later.

First tho, Pre Wow Todd:
About 8 years ago ish.. I was working for Dell, I was and am still not a gamer.. I did not buy a playstation 2, I half owned an Xbox with my Brother only because he didn’t have enough money to buy it himself… at this time I would occasionally play Battlefield 1942 and host servers on Linux probably because of the challenge of running it on Linux.. and nothing else. I had thought about maybe picking up Star Wars Galaxies, or Everquest, but I had heard they were addictive.. also.. I didn’t like what else I’d heard about the game play.. it was sort of cookie cutter. I was with a girl who I’d just had a child with (this was my second child, Vivien.) And I’d changed jobs, and was now working for Dell, which I think was late 2003.

Time passes and WoW is released later in 2004, and people all around me start playing it, including my good friend James, who was a Gamer. First James would talk all day about whatever game he was playing.. which were all console games.. James even though he worked at Dell did not have a PC at home, he just didn’t have one, there were a few guys who didn’t. I think I had like.. 2 at the time.. anyhooooo.. WoW was spreading like fire amongst the other Dell Techs around us, a guild called The Sentinels sprang up, and James needed a PC.. I remember going to either newegg or mwave and showing him I could probably put together a cheap PC for less than what Dell wanted for a cheap one even with his discount, So James was playing wow.. and naturally.. he wouldn’t stop talking about it.. and talking about it.. so I just had to know what the big deal was.. So I think in July of 2005 it must have been..

Within a couple of months I was 30.. this is embarrassing to me now.. but the game was harder then.. most people didn’t know how to play, lots of general game mechanics now that everyone is just expected to know simply wasn’t really that important to you as a player.. or you didn’t care enough to know. Want a good example?

My wife tells a story that her Mage was asked to heal in Uldaman.

want another?

I decided to roll a paladin (Savory on Blackhand).. and while getting my rez quest done, I ran into a level 7 warrior.. and I heal him.. and we are wearing similar things.. and he said “r you magic??”

OLD WoW vs. New WoW

If you are new to Wow.. and you want to get into a dungeoun you have your finder.. back in this time.. there was no such thing.. first.. you could go to a city.. and in the city you say in general chat:

LFG (Looking For Group) Name of Instance.. usually an abbreviation.. which was normally an agreed upon thing.. like SFK was ShadowFang Keep..

You would spam the channel.. usually boring everyone.. and this would make places like IronForge and Ogrimmar into really really busy places.. and most PC’s couldn’t take the loading of all those shapes at once.. so you’d lag hardcore.. if you’ve ever heard of those pits in IronForge being called “Lag Pits” that’s why, you’d end up down there alot.

I’ve run out of time to write for today.. I’ll do more later

It expects it to be in /usr/lib/ , but it’s in fact in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

so.. we make some symbolic links..


sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libssl.so.6
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.6


Try your install again.. and …

Oh.. also.. remeber netExtenderGUI requires Java.. and Java and Ubuntu are kind of a fucking mess..

So.. I downloaded the JRE Bin from Java.com.. extracted it to /usr/lib/java and made a symbolic link to the /usr/lib/java/bin/java like so…

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/java/bin/java /usr/bin/java


So then.. Viola.. lol..

Whatever this man makes.. I’m watching it lol

Typically the process is thus:

#1 You visit the URL of your Sonicwall.
#2 Login
#3 Download the tar.gz file for NetExtender once it figures out you are using Linux.
#4 Extract this file someplace.
#5 In a terminal you need to launch the “install” script that is included as sudo, not root, because it won’t let you.
sudo ./install

However…

In this version of ubuntu (XFCE, Xubuntu 11.10) I got an error about libssl missing.

So.. I installed the 32bit libssl and everything seemed to work out fine.

sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386

Using Add Apt Repository
*if you are using Ubuntu Server.. you will have to install the package “python-software-properties” which contains the “add-apt-repository” tool you will need to add the ppa the way I’m going to show you.

Step #1 Add the repo.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java

Step #2 Update your sources.
sudo apt-get update

Step #3 Install Java
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
*if you are not using a gui.. and just need java for something like say.. tomcat.. only install the JRE.