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Monthly Archives: September 2017
command line fun – finding mistakes
I knew that I had mistyped but it was too late. I tried to exit out of vi in a hurry and accidentally exited but saved the file under a new name. This wouldn’t have been so bad if the … Continue reading
Got a new tablet for the price of fastfood meal …
… well, that is a bit of an exaggeration. I owned a Samsung Galaxy S tablet which no longer worked. It had the darndest symptoms. doesn’t charge past 77 % takes a day to get to 77% spontaneously restarts shortly … Continue reading
Posted in Setup From Scratch
Tagged DIY
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command line fun – temporary data
Most of the scripts that I need to write don’t actually need to manipulate a lot of data. It is usually enough to pipe that data through a command or two and use the result. When this isn’t acceptable then … Continue reading
virtualbox disk too small ?
The first few times I used VirtualBox it wasn’t clear why you would ever want to create a virtual disk that is dynamic. I could only envision having three machines each with a disk that wasn’t fully expanded only to … Continue reading
Virtual hardware -better than the real thing
One of the really neat things about the here and now is all those spare CPU cycles that are available. With enough CPU power it is possible to create special effects such as adding dinosaurs to movies, bringing historical figures … Continue reading
Posted in Setup From Scratch
Tagged virtual computing
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