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Installing Dropbox on Ubuntu (and others)

By jonmoore | Published: October 21, 2009
I’ve been using dropbox to sync and share files between my various computers for quite some time, and overall have been very pleased.  However, one area things are not so great… documentation for installation on Linux.  After having to reinstall on my notebook, I decided to somewhat document the hidden part of the process. After downloading [...]
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VMware ate my CTRL, Shift, and ALT keys :(

By jonmoore | Published: October 8, 2008
Working with VMware on Ubuntu 8.04 has proved to be much more trouble then in the past.  It appears, that when using VMware with a Windows guest, the CTRL, ALT and Shift keys no longer work.  It gets better though.. Google Search has offered a few solutions, mostly related to resetting keyboard layouts and such.  However, [...]
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