VMWare server on Ubuntu 8.04

After upgrading my laptop from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, I was having trouble running my vmware server. This page has a solution to properly install vmware server on Ubuntu 8.04.

Write Bangla (বাংলা) on your Ubuntu

Check out this site: http://omi.net.bd/?cat=103 to enable bangla keyboard layout (unijoy) on your Ubuntu installation. It has very detailed step to have you start typing bangla in any linux application.

Quick install git 1.5.5+ on a fresh Ubuntu 7.10

This entry is note to me so that I can come back to it later on when needed.

1. Download git from: http://git.or.cz/
2. Uncompress it and go to the uncompressed git directory.
3. run: sudo apt-get build-dep git-core
4. run: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
5. run: make configure
6. run: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
7. run: make all doc
8. run: sudo make install install-doc
done!!