Month: September 2009

Science is fun #1

Sometimes the research work is seen as a boring job, something that put you all day in front of a computer and into a room without windows… ok… that’s true, but we (the researchers gang) also have fun moments, just like this that I found in the NASA Image Gallery… do you imagine one of those NASA astronauts playing with Buzz in the spaceship?… what could and advanced civilization from other galaxy could think about humans if they contact a dude playing with toys in a respectable NASA spaceship?… I don’t know, but I love that picture and now is the  wallpaper on my desktop 😀

The Return of Buzz Lightyear
The Return of Buzz Lightyear

Problems with VMware Web Access

I’ve been working with VMware Server version 2.0 and I got surprised with the new web access interface that reminded me the web interface of Microsoft Virtual Server (a very nice interface in my opinion); but I had the great idea to upgrade my VMware Server to version 2.0.1 and problems began… I wasn’t able to access the shiny VMware Web Access 🙁

My first workaround was to access the VMWare Web Access page locally in my virtual machines’ server (because using localhost I always was able to use that feature); but It was a problem having to log-in remotely to the server every time  I wanted to manage the virtual machines; so after some googling I found another fix for my problem, not the best one but I don’t have to connect to the server all times.

Here is the solution:

  1. Edit your HOSTS file and add explicitly the IP address and URL of you server, for example: 
    127.0.0.1       localhost #this is always by default
209.191.93.52   your.virtualserver.com
  2. Restart you computer (Maybe it is not necessary, but this is how computers work :P)
  3. Open your Web browser (I use Firefox) and enter the following URL: 
    https://your.virtualserver.com:8333/ui/#

    Put special attention to the /#…despite it sounds crasy, it works!!!… I’m read that the issue could be due to a bug with the tomcat server that uses VMware server, maybe that /# is a special command or something like this, I’m not sure, the fact is that it works!

If this chapuza (means like workaround in spanish :P) doesn’t work, restart your server. Despite using this chapuza there are some times that I still have the same problem, in order to avoid it, I just press CTRL + F5 to refresh the webpage and it works. By the way, I also read that there are some special issues if you are using Internet Explorer or Chrome, so be aware.

Well, I hope this could help someone of wasting time as I was.

Problemas con los acentos al actualizar WordPress

Pues después de varios meses me doy tiempo nuevamente para meter mano a mi blog, la verdad me motivo mucho a seguir adelante con él cada vez que alguien comenta algunos de mis post, que aunque son muy poquitos, me gusta saber que son de utilidad.

Pues bien, aprovechando un momento de relax me puse a actualizar mi blog a la versión más reciente de WordPress a pesar de la gran cantidad de críticas y problemas de seguridad reportados en las últimas semanas. La nueva interfaz me gusta, es bastante usable y tienes todas las opciones accesibles, pero hoy problema con todos mis posts es Español, todas las ñ, y vocales acentuadas (á, é, í, ó, ú) aparecían en lenguaje marciano. Después de una breve búsqueda por Google encontré de todo, desde consultas super fumadas en MySQL para buscar y remplazar los caracteres en las tablas de la base de datos, hasta revisar post por post y cambiar las letras. Al final encontré la solución más sencilla y práctica posible; basta con editar el fichero wp-config.php ubicado en la raíz de tu instalación de WordPress y hacer lo siguiente:

Buscar la siguientes línea:

define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

Y remplazarla por:

por define(’DB_CHARSET’, ”);

A lo mejor no es la solución más elegante, pero me funcionó 🙂