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I just built myself a new Windows VM. After I spent the next ~six hours patching and rebooting several thousand times I went to install Microsoft Visual C++ Express. I had not yet had a chance to play with it before today but 2010 has been released into the wild. So I download it [ READ MORE ]
I have always loved games that masterba… er, play themselves out. In such games the player sets the initial conditions– perhaps even writes a little code or designs something– and then lets it all hit the fan. As of late I have been staring at Gratuitous Space Battles. In this one you design a small fleet [ READ MORE ]
In order to force an fsck check on reboot simply stick a file in the root of the filesystem you wish checked named forcefsck and reboot. You can use the line touch /forcefsck to create it. If you have the filesystem mounted under another path edit the line accordingly. fsck will automatically remove this file [ READ MORE ]
There are a few services I run that I need to access over the web that I do not want anyone watching (phpMyAdmin, for example). The simple solution is to encrypt this traffic with SSL certificates. Here is how I did it on Windows with Apache 2.2: Install the latest Apache 2.2 with OpenSSL: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi. Open the [ READ MORE ]
I have noticed that the Linux versions of VMware products love their swap usage. I do not know if this is a “fault” of Linux or the VMware software but it annoys and slows me down. After looking around for an elegant solution I just decided to take the brute force method to emptying my [ READ MORE ]