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making vmplayer work in ubuntu 12.04

I recently wanted to load a virtual machine in ubuntu 12.04 and i got some errors:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/130937/how-do-i-install-vmware-player-4-0-3
that did not work so i read this post:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/130937/how-do-i-install-vmware-player-4-0-3
and changed one character in that file and ran it and it worked.

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clonezilla

i used clonezilla to make a backup and restore a 250 GB image of my computer.
one little hangup that i found solved in this post that i really need to remember.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/clonezilla-cant-find-disk-image-696785/
when mounting the restore drive, do the parent directory.  if you do the actual directory of the restore it wont even show the option to restore it.
very helpful