Created an OpenSocial Account

It seemed like a good idea now that the OpenSocial Community has a site (on ning) that actually has a Social aspect to it that I create an account.

Come check it out.

It is a bit barebones at the moment, but the OpenSocial Community site is an OpenSocial container so if you create an OpenSocial app you can upload and share it there.

Setting up Fedora 10 on vbox

I wanted to play around with my own instance of Fedora 10 on vbox so here is what I did:

• Download the latest version of Sun's Virtual Box
• Download the Live version of Fedora 10
• Create a virtual machine - default mostly just up the ram to 1GB
• Mount the Fedora 10 live iso to the CD ROM mount
• Start up the virtual machine.
• The Fedora 10 Live OS will boot up with an option for copying the Live version to disk. Real simple install. Follow the prompts.
• Once the OS is copied start it up.
• Supply a username and password.
• Next tell the system to auto update (make sure you enabled the network card on the virtual machine).
• When that is complete, download the GNU compiler (yum install gcc).
• Next download the GNU Make source , this is needed to install the virtual box additions that allow for better full screen control and mouse control.
• From the unpacked folder of the Make source code run ./configure to prepare the source code for the system.
• then run sh build.sh to build the make executable.
• then run ./make install to install the binaries and ./make clean to clean up the source code when you are done.
• I wanted to get the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed, and the above was not sufficient, I needed to install some additional commponents. I found this forum talking about the issue I was having and used this command to get the right dependencies installed

• yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel

• The above command worked and the Guest Additions were successfully installed.