Will is one of the most genuine people you will ever meet and isn’t afraid to tell you when you’re wrong :) During this time we were in college, he met his beautiful wife April while on a flight (she’s a flight attendant). I can remember the days when Will would mention that April was flying in to hang out for the day. To this day, that still sounds very weird that someone flies somewhere for a day! But it worked for them. Many times she would have a layover in Raleigh so that’s how they were able to spend time with one another.

The next thing you know, Will and April were getting married! I remember how excited Will was, but also very nervous because they were doing this during the middle of a semester. This meant that Will would be missing more than a week of class! Luckily for his friend Jared (that’s me), I was in history class, voice recorder and pencil in hand to help out with the notes! After Will got back from the honeymoon, things were back to “normal” except that now April was now permanently in Raleigh.

Fast forward a bit and next thing you know, Will and I are trudging through our final semester at NC State trying to finish our senior design project together in order to graduate! During this time, I was in the process of applying for jobs and going to interviews. Having worked for 2.5 years at SAS as an intern, I originally expected to be there upon graduation. However, the economy had other plans! During this same time, Will had been doing an internship at NetApp and had a job offer for when he graduated. That was so exciting!

Will started telling me about NetApp and how awesome it is. I decided to go talk to them at the upcoming career fair. Lucky me, I talked to the college recruiter that hired Will on as intern and knew him very well! Next thing you know I’m going to interviews at NetApp and ended up getting a job offer! All things said and done, I’m now at NetApp with Will. Sometimes you wouldn’t know it because we work one floor and about 50 steps away from one another, but don’t get a chance to sit and talk nearly often enough.

But 9 months ago, we did get a chance to catch up and the news was true, April was pregnant! This was great news! Of course from this day, every time I saw Will our conversations started with updates on how April is doing, how the baby is doing, is it a boy or girl, any name ideas yet, etc. Well one week ago today on November 21 at 11:43am, a baby boy known as Baby D was born!

Baby D you ask? Yes this was the baby’s nickname throughout April’s pregnancy, but why was this still his name when he was born? Well it wasn’t… technically. It wasn’t until several hours later that April and Will came up with a name, so for the first few hours of his life he was still known as Baby D. Then we all got the update we were waiting for, their new baby boy is named Malachi Liam Davidson! Although I make no promises to not call him Baby D for at least the next several months :)

I am so excited for Will and April for the new addition to their family and wish them the best going forward! They will both be great parents!

And without further ado, here’s that cute little bundle of joy!

To begin, open the file /etc/hostname as root:

sudo gedit /etc/hostname

Change the text in that file to what you would like your new hostname to be and restart your computer. When the computer reboots, you will have a new hostname!

I am going to assume that you have already downloaded and installed XAMPP in it’s default location at C:\xampp\. If you have XAMPP installed in a different location, then change any paths to files accordingly.

The first file that you need to edit is C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf.

You need to make 2 edits to this file. First, uncomment the following directive to tell Apache you are going to use a subdomain:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Next, you want to setup your subdomain. Add the following code to the end of the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName localhost
	DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"

	DirectoryIndex index.php

	<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName subdomain.localhost
	DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Jared/Documents/web/subdomain"

	DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

	<Directory "C:/Users/Jared/Documents/web/subdomain">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The first VirtualHost will allow you to still put files in the normal htdocs folder and serve those using Apache. The second VirtualHost is the one for your subdomain. The things that you need to update are the following:

• ServerName: this should be the subdomain you want to setup.
• DocumentRoot: this should be where the files that should be served by Apache are located
• Directory: this should match the DocumentRoot

The second file that you need to edit is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

Add the following to the end of the file to tell Windows that when you navigate to subdomain.localhost that is should look for it locally instead of trying to resolve the domain name. Note that this should match the ServerName from the Apache configuration.

127.0.0.1		subdomain.localhost

That’s all there is to it. Restart Apache and your subdomain should be working. If you want to add multiple subdomains, repeat the steps in this article, minus the VirtualHost for localhost as that is only needed once.

If you have any trouble getting this setup or suggestions, please leave them in the comments.

However, in a standard CentOS installation, this is not the case as it is missing a few dependencies needed by the Guest Additions installer.  Unfortunately, the error given by the Guest Additions installer only tells you what is missing, but not what package(s) you need to install that will satisfy the dependencies needed.

Fortunately, it’s a pretty easy fix.  All you need to do is install a few packages using yum and you’re set to go.

Run the following command as root to install the dependencies needed by Guest Additions.

yum install gcc-c++
yum install kernel-headers
yum install kernel-devel

Of course, you could always combine these into one command by running:

yum install gcc-c++ kernel-headers kernel-devel

Once this has finished, it is best to go ahead and restart CentOS to ensure that the latest kernel headers are loaded. After restarting, you should be able to run the install for Guest Additions without a problem.

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