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I've been using QCAD for a few years to do house plans and structural design. It is a fantastic easy-to-use product. But I've come to the limit on some of it's features. Until today I didn't even know there was an alternative opensource version named FreeCAD but...

In linux do: mkfs.msdos -C floppy.flp 1440 # mount it mkdir floppy sudo mount -o loop floopy.flp floppy cp <what_you_need_on_floppy> floppy/ sudo umount floppy   Once you have created the image copy it up to your datastore and then point your VM floppy...

I want to install from an ISO a copy of Windows SBS 2011 which is WIndows 2008 R2 with a dress on. I want to run from the word go the paravirtual scsci controller driver. And to install a mass storage driver from install you need to mount the driver on a floppy. So...

I had an MD3200 array failure the other day. And so I've decided to re-install the Redhat Operating System on the R710 Dell server and re-setup multipathing. Here are some of the things that I've done: Install Redhat 5  using the Dell Resource CD and then yum update...

Create a backup dir # create a directory to hold the backup files mkdir /storage/backup # create a backup script file /storage/backup/embedded_db_backup.sh # make it executeable chmod +x /storage/backup/embedded_db_backup.sh Add the following to the backup script...

Just had a situation where I need to find and replace a value in multiple html, js, php files starting in /var/www/html and descending to replace all instances. This worked for me. fgrep srv-02 * -lR | xargs sed -i.bak -e 's/srv-02/srv-04/g' Basically the above means...