Posts By: Hans-Henry Jakobsen

Howto enter VMware ESXi license key after it has expired

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“Disable VMware ESX” is the warning message that is displayed when you open your VMware vSphere Client after the 60-day evaluation period has expired without typing in a new license key for your free VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5 install. You cannot type in the license key in the vSphere Client after the evaluation period has [...]

Disable Windows super key in Ubuntu

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I am running a virtualized Windows 8 installation on VMware Worlstation in Ubuntu 12.10 and this can be confusing since the window manager uses the same key as my Windows machine to open the launcher. Therefore I use to disable the super key in Ubuntu so that only my Windows machine responds to the key. [...]

Howto mount UDF ISO-13346 ISO file in Ubuntu

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This is just a short note on how you can mount a UDF ISO-file in a Ubuntu console window. # sudo mount -t udf,iso13346 -o loop ISO-filename.iso mountpoint Remember to create the mountpoint folder before you try to mount the ISO file.

Script to delete files listed in a file

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This is a short one liner bash script to delete files in a file. The script also handles filenames with space in them. # while read file; do rm “$file”; done < filename.txt To generate a filename.txt file by searching for a specific pattern you can use the following command # find / -type f [...]