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Projectsfyhuang @ September 25, 2008 1:04 pm
I have been having, to put it lightly, some problems with VMware server and an Ubuntu guest. My guess as to why is this: VMware server is, in my eyes, built for production-level server virtualization. It’s not really built for on-the-side home server virtualization, like the kind that I’m doing, and on fairly desktop-oriented hardware to boot. Basically, my Ubuntu install often has trouble with disk access, and sometimes network access as well. (I’m running a Vista Home Premium host with an Ubuntu Server 8.04 guest.)
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Articlesfyhuang @ September 13, 2008 9:41 pm
My school uses an NTLM-authenticating proxy server, and this causes problems with lots of applications which don’t support proxy servers. Many, many solutions have been proposed to this problem, but I’ll focus on one that I find particularly appealing: setting up a non-authenticating personal proxy server which forwards requests to the main proxy server.
**Update: use the [new version of this config file][newconfig] - it works better.**
[newconfig]: http://nongraphical.com/2008/11/updated-squid-3-configuration/
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