sysdigg» Tools http://www.sysdigg.com Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:57:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Tool in Windows 7 beta -Snipping Tool http://www.sysdigg.com/new-tool-in-windows-7-beta-snipping-tool http://www.sysdigg.com/new-tool-in-windows-7-beta-snipping-tool#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:15:30 +0000 saif http://www.sysdigg.com/?p=733 There are some new features and new tools that have been added to Windows 7 like Advanced Firewall, Improved task bar, Jump Lists, Internet explorer 8 and the one i really liked is Faster , more responsive performance.

Windows 7 really does a better and fast startup, shutdown,resumes from standby modeMicrosoft always mentioned that newer Operating system really comes with performance enhancements that wasn’t true for Windows Vista but this time they Windows 7 really does better job in performance.

I am still trying out what’s new in Windows 7 beta but the tool that really catched my attention is really impressive, Windows 7 comes with Snipping Tool which is very useful specially for bloggers .The Snipping Tool currently comes with some baisc feature like you can scrap text and useful pictures using this tool, it doesn’t comes with all those features that are available in Snagit. The Snipping tool in Windows 7 allows users to capture , edit and share information  of web and local pictures (images).Snipping allows you to send the capture image/text to anyone using the option listed on the menu options, how nice :-) . I would say Windows 7 Snipping tool is very useful Features that everyone will love to use on Windows platform, Snagit costs around $49 , if you are going to use Windows 7 you will get free Snipping tool to use some of the feature that Snagit provides :-)

]]> http://www.sysdigg.com/new-tool-in-windows-7-beta-snipping-tool/feed 1 How to install VMware Tools in CentOS 5 http://www.sysdigg.com/how-to-install-vmware-tools-in-centos-5 http://www.sysdigg.com/how-to-install-vmware-tools-in-centos-5#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:31:05 +0000 saif http://www.sysdigg.com/how-to-install-vmware-tools-in-centos-5 VMware tools are needed on VMware virtual machines so that guest operating systems can run without any performance issues.

I have installed CentOS 5 on VMware workstation 5.5 and here is how i installed VMware Tools in CentOS 5:

1. Install CentOS 5 kernel-devel packages required for VMware Tools installation

1. First make sure you have network access to download and install packages from CentOS packages site. During installation of VMware Tools CentOS kernel devel packages are needed, run yum (yellow dog update manager) to install gcc and kernel devel.

centosdev # yum install gcc kernel-devel

2. Verify installed and running version of kernel and kernel headers (kernel-devel) in CentOS 5.

centosdev # uname -r

centosdev # rpm -q kernel-devel

On my CentOS server both version are different.

3. If you’re running version of kernel and kernel headers are different then upgrade on kernel and kernel headers

centosdev # yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel

centosdev # reboot

4. Locate the path of install kernel headers in your CentOS 5 Linux server, you will need this path while installing VMware Tools :

centosdev # ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/includ

2. Installing VMware Tools in CentOS 5


My development CentOS server runs under VMware Workstation 5.5

1.Select from VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools

2.From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive , this should be done with the guest OS (CentOS ) command line:

centosdev # mount /dev/cdrom /mn

3. From the CDROM extract VMware Tools into /tmp/ directory

centosdev # mount tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz

4. In CentOS 5 unmount the virtual cd drive after you are done.

centosdev # umount /mnt

5. Running VMware Tools installation/setup script

centosdev # cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib

centosdev # ./vmware-install.pl

6. This is VMware Tools installation/setup script, it will ask for confirmation to begin the installation

centosdev # ./vmware-install.pl

Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".

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