Get some information on the VMDK you are going to convert VBoxManage showhdinfo Windows\ XP\ Professional\ 2.vmdk VBoxManage showhdinfo Windows\ XP\ Professional\ 2.vmdk UUID: 880b32c8-db80-4caf-94d4-f7af29b691d3 Accessible: yes Logical size: 10240 MBytes Current size...
Patent Insanity
Yet again Scott Adams hits the nail right on the head.
Pay-wall fine – Just remove the Advertisements
The Australian newspaper industry is moving toward having Pay-walls up for it's news online news content. I don't have a problem specifically with paying for a product that I use everyday ( smh.com.au, news.com.au, etc) but if they are going to ask for money I would...
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Attempted Ethernet iSCSI Addition to SBS 2003 Server Causes ActiveSync to Fail
Just installed a Dual 10GB Ethernet Card in an SBS 2003 server and ActiveSync broke. Only option I found was to disable the cards and ActiveSync started working again. I didn't thoroughly investigate if there was a work-a-round to keep the Ethernet connections active...
Goodbye to The Thieves of Time
Facebook went first A year or so ago I deleted my Facebook profile. This was mainly because I felt really creeped out (sort of like finding a house guest going through your sock drawer) by people I was only vaguely acquainted with from 20yrs ago friending me, then...
A Mini HTTP Server for Windows
If you are doing Linux network installs and you don't want to go to the bother of installing a full Apache &/or IIS environment on Windows try Mongoose http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/ Just download it into the folder in which you are sharing files from and execute...
Find Files by File Name and Delete them Using Windows Batch Language.
Find all files of a specific type in the current and descendant directories Here I am looking for the highly annoying Dia .dia~ files Delete the files using the list that was...
Samsung Galaxy S 2 – Battery Life Dramitically Reduced in Early June 2012
I have taken posession of a Samsung Galaxy S 2. Problem: In early June my battery life plummetted from being able to fully charge the phone over night and then recharge again at night to only lasting 4hours or less. Applications: I had the following apps installed...
Exclude Junction Points when Using Robocopy to Copy Windows 7 User Profiles off a Machine
Just had a situation where I was copying multiple versions of the same file because robocopy was following junction points.
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