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This livecd it’s a simple but powerful solution to backup and restore partitions. Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines Automatically finds local network shares Access your files Read more…
Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities: – pigz – Parallel gzip – pbzip2 – Parallel bzip2 I’m using gzip and bzip2 from ages, and also multiple processors and multiple cores, so why don’t use multi-threading compression utilities? They are (obviously) binary compatible with the old Read more…
This board is the coolest thing I’ve seen in computing for years. The price (25$ for the basic one and 35$ for the advanced one) it will be awesome. I can’t wait! 🙂 FAQs | Raspberry Pi.
Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town video — Engadget.
The guys from Box.net are giving away 50gb of space forever if you install the last APP on your iPhone/iPod/iPad. It’s a nice and free backup solution! http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-storage-box50gb/ PS: It’s working also if you are an old user (like me). Just install the APP, log in and enjoy the space! Read more…
IETester is a free Web Browser (it’s alpha software, anyway it’s working, so why not use it???) that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same Read more…
Well, I have just made a little discovery: under recent distros (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10) the cron stuff is changed.
If you label your script with a name containing a dot, the cron job is not executed. (!!!)
Until now, I used to label my scripts like script.sh but now this is evil 🙂
If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line: mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE
If you are experiencing some strange behaviour with the keyboard (the four arrow keys, Home, End, PageUP, PageDOWN, etc… are not working correctly) in Vmware Server 2.0 and your host is Linux, you can try to fix this problem with this terminal code: [source: js] echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ >> Read more…
I’m playing with OpenLaszlo from a while (an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications), but I have found some problems installing it on my developing system (currently I’m using Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex).
I have found the solution and due to lack of documentation about it I have decided to write a little step-by-step guide here on this blog…