Installing VirtualBox guest additions on Fedora 11 in Windows (and change the screen resolution)

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Once Fedora has been installed:

  1. Unmount the CD-ROM from the VirtualBox toolbar “Devices > Unmount CD/DVD-ROM”. This might require a restart of Fedora.
  2. Click “Devices > Install Guest Additions”, this will mount the guest additions CD.
  3. Open a terminal window (ALT+F2: gnome-terminal).
  4. Type su to switch to administrator mode. (Type the password when prompted).
  5. Install GNU Compiler Collection. Type: yum install gcc
  6. Install the kernel develop: yum install kernel-devel
  7. Now type  cd /media followed by cd VB ([tab] to complete, name depends on version)
  8. Type ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run (replace x-86 with amd64 if you are running 64 bit OS, and yes it is case sensitive.)
  9. Step 8 might fail because of version issues. You will be instructed to “install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel.” and you will be given the current kernel version. In my case this was 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 so I did yum install kernel-devel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586
  10. Log out and log back in and you’re done.

After installing you should get a higher screen resolution. However, it still might not be large enough to fit your screen fullscreen.

To resolve this follow these steps.

  1. Install the package system-config-display. Type yum install system-config-display
  2. While this installs the package, you will have to run system-config-display –noui –reconfigure before you can use it.
  3. This will create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf which you will have to edit. Type gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  4. Locate the section “Device” and add before “EndSection”: Modes “1024×768″ “1280×1024_75.00″ (Change the resolution to fit your screen settings. _75.00 means refresh rate of 75 Hz.)
  5. Save the file. Log out and log back in.
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Install CakePHP TextMate bundle in E Texteditor

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This is a guide to manually installing the CakePHP TextMate bundle in the TextMate Windows equivalent E TextEditor.

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Install Eric Python IDE on Windows

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I assume that you have installed Python.

  1. First of all, Eric needs a few prerequisites which are (fortunately) available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
  2. Download the binary packages for windows.
  3. Download Eric.
  4. Install the binary packages.
  5. Extract Eric to a place of your choosing.
  6. Run install.py
  7. Run [c:\ericdir]\eric\eric4.py and you’re off!
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How to install Apache, MySQL, PHP on Windows

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Go here, download and install. That’s it.

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How can I disable/enable the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista?

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  1. Start > Run > MSCONFIG
  2. Click on the Tools tab.
  3. Scroll down till you find “Disable UAC” and click it. (Choose “Enable UAC” if you want to enable it).
  4. Press the Launch button.
  5. A command window will open, and when the command is done, you can close the window.
  6. Close MSCONFIG and you are done.

You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

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