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VMware Virtual Machine Startup Shortcuts

Laz — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:08:46 +0000

I am going to share a VMware tidbit with you, something that some of you may already know, but for those of you that don’t, it might help out a little bit. This is particularly aimed at the VMware Workstation crowd. OK, first let me setup the background here. I have a virtual machine that [...]

Mobile Data On Disk

Laz — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:40:03 +0000

Today I thought I would show you a neat trick you can do with your PC or laptop and a blank CD or DVD. Using something that Microsoft calls their Live File System, you can create or format a blank disk that will then allow you to use that disk (while it is in your [...]

Tools for eBay

Laz — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:53:13 +0000

I am sure that just about everyone has at least looked around on eBay if not purchased something from someone through there. There are a smaller number of us that have actually sold stuff on eBay, and as anyone who has done this can tell you, it ain’t pretty. The good folks at eBay have [...]

Anoying RAID messages in logs on Debian

Laz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:13:56 +0000

Recently I ran into an odd recurring message in the log files of some 64-bit Debian servers I had setup, and although it wasn’t causing me any problems per se, I hate for things to just go on like that and not know why and what to do about it. Now, these were virtual machines [...]

Bash function for making locate find exact matches

Laz — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:23:00 +0000

This is one of the coolest and most useful things to add to my UNIX/Linux profile that I have come across in a long time. I use the locate command a lot (slocate naturally) as I am sure all of us command line monkeys do. How many times have you been frustrated by the billions [...]

Geek Squad Confessions

Laz — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:38:17 +0000

One of the websites out there that I just love is The Consumerist. Probably many of you are going to already be familiar with this site, but if not, allow me to digress for a moment. This site is not only funny as heck based on the writers they have and the wonderful work they [...]

Powerconfig and Windows Hibernation – Part 2

Laz — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:00:48 +0000

I wanted to post a followup to an earlier post about Windows and disabling the Hibernation feature. The original power was useful because in many circumstances (like most desktops) you don’t need to or want to hibernate your system. So, you can save some disk space (upwards of the amount of RAM in your PC) [...]

HP kills TouchPad, looks to exit PC business

Laz — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:37:59 +0000

It looks like the CEO at HP is smoking the crack and not sharing the recipe with the rest of us. A month after their TouchPad debuts they kill the product because it’s not selling like they want. OK, it wasn’t selling well at all from what I read, but come on you launched the [...]

Information Is King

Laz — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:36:12 +0000

OK, kiddies, gather round. Let me pontificate loftily standing upon my bubbly box of soap, in order to loudly proclaim that information is king (or queen if that is your perspective). Why is information so important? The reason is simple! The more information we have (at hand, it doesn’t have to be memorized, it can [...]

The Evolution of Link Popularity

Kernel — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:00:40 +0000

Anyone who has developed a website hoping to quickly achieve a high ranking in the search engines, especially Google, has probably discovered that the task is much more daunting than they originally thought. That is because new websites and even existing websites must prove to Google, Yahoo, MSN and the other search engines that they [...]