Everytime when I want to start a VM on Server, I got this message.

VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please see the VMware Server documentation.

Also after doing the vmware-config.pl, the same message again.

I am not sure but I guess there is a bug in the

/etc/init.d/vmware

There was a temporary solution for me, that works, you just have to open the above file with a text editor as a superuser and find the following lines

if [ "$exitcode" -gt 0 ]; then
         # Set the 'not configured' flag
         touch "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
         chmod 644 "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
         db_add_file "$vmware_db" "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured' \
            "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
         exit 1
      fi

here comment the whole part out. After that run the vmware-config.pl again.

That's all!

I installed Debian 4.0r3 on my workstation. Since any months I use amarok as my favorite music player and it worked great on several distributions.
But not on my Debian system. After some seconds of a playing track the following message pops up:

xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers.

So when I pressed the OK button, the message went away and amarok freezed at the same time.

After investigating some times for finding a solution, I got one that helped me.
I just had to disable the crossfading.

I guess it's a bug in the amarok version (my version is 1.4.4).

Source:
http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,2084.0.html

I found out that the error message

eth0: PHY reset until link up.

was spaming my logfiles. One strangely point was that it happened only when the ethernet cable wasn't plugged in.

After some tests (killing all running dhcpcd services (this service runs although the physical link is down)) I tried to shut the interface 'eth0' down and look there, that's it. Now there are no spams in my logfiles about the above error message.

Ladies and gentlemen,

today I got my USB UMTS Modem (Huawei e270 / Provider Three.at) running. I tried a lot of tools also gui tools, but they are not working fine.
So I searched some how-to's to set a connection via PPP up. There were a lot of search results and all of them were different.
But I found a combined way to get it running.

Here is the little how-to:
*configure your kernel for usb and serial support (usbserial, hid, ohci/uhci/ehci and ppp-support)
*build your kernel and load the modules
*install ppp
*create the file

/etc/ppp/peers/internet

and modify it like the example below

hide-password
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/internet"
debug
115200
defaultroute
noipdefault
user "" #change this to your settings if not known, let it blank
remotename drei.at #change this to your settings
ipparam drei.at #change this to your settings
usepeerdns
/dev/ttyUSB0
/dev/ttyUSB1

*create the file

/etc/chatscripts/internet

and modify it like the example below

ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED
'' ATZ
OK-AT-OK "ATDP*99#"
CONNECT \d\c

*copy the following line modified to your settings into

/etc/ppp/pap-secrets

"" drei.at """"

*plugin the modem
*try to connect with

pppd call internet nodetach

*after dialing in you should have a connection called 'ppp0'

Enjoy mobile surfing!

If you want to burn a 'big' VideoDVD, like a backup rip of one of your film collection or something like this, you have to select a DataDVD in K3b and create the necessary folders (AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS) by your own.

All standard DVD player should play the video than.