Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I’ve been trying to get VMware ESXi 4 on my old MSI MS-7388 motherboard for a long time. No matter what I tried, neither the SATA controller on the motherboard or the add on SATA controller would be recognized.
Install VMware ESXi 4.0 on an unsupported motherboard (SATA controller must support AHCI):

make sure the SATA controller(s) [...]

I rebuilt an Ubuntu 9.10 server this past week, ripping off VMware and replacing it with VirtualBox 3.1.2. Setting up VirtualBox as a headless server was very easy with VBoxTool. However, I ran into a problem that I was unable to connect using remote desktop (rdesktop) as any user but the user that [...]

When I purchased Foundations of Qt Development (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) by Johan Thelin a few months back, I hoped to get to it right away but work and life diverted my attention. Today at lunch I dived into it. Even though I’m still going through chapter 1, I think I can [...]

I wrote a simple image viewer that will load a photo image into a Gtk.Image widget using a Gdk.Pixbuf.  I then added a tool bar with four clickable icons.  Zoom out, zoom in, fit to window and original size.

All but the fit to window worked well.  When I pulled the width and height from image1.GetSizeRequest(out [...]

I’ve been wracking my brains over this for the past few weeks and it finally struck me how to create an m4b audiobook with chapters that is compatible with your iPod, iTunes, VLC, etc.  It was very simple once I figured it out:
Step 1:
encode the mp3 files to “aac” (mpeg4) using your favorite converter (I [...]