Posts

Using a regex find for ^$ in Sublime Text 2 to select all empty lines and delete them.

archived Oct 27, 2011 1 min Tools

Hardware list for an ESXi 5 whitebox build, with notes on its NIC support and the free edition's 32GB RAM limit.

archived Oct 15, 2011 1 min Esxi Hardware

Removing the extra blank lines in text files created on Windows by binding a sed /^$/d command in TextMate's Bundle Editor.

archived Oct 10, 2011 1 min Macos Tools

Using an Ubuntu VM running Netatalk and Avahi to let OS X Lion Time Machine back up to a network share.

archived Oct 8, 2011 1 min Macos Linux Storage

Opening a Windows .DMP crash dump in WinDbg and running .symfix, .reload and !analyze -v to find the crash cause.

Sep 3, 2011 1 min Windows

Blitz.io, a Node.js-based service for testing a website's load and performance with thousands of connection attempts.

archived Sep 2, 2011 1 min Tools

The ifcfg-eth0 static network configuration needed to get CentOS networking working on Hyper-V with a legacy NIC.

archived Jul 19, 2011 1 min Virtualization Linux

Fixing apt-get update 404 errors on end-of-life Ubuntu 8.04 by pointing sources.list at old-releases.ubuntu.com.

archived Jun 26, 2011 1 min Linux

Connecting PuTTY to an Amazon EC2 CentOS instance by converting the .pem key to a .ppk with PuTTYgen.

archived Jun 12, 2011 1 min Linux Windows

First benchmark of a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB installed alongside Windows 7 SP1, leaving 91GB free.

archived Jun 3, 2011 1 min Hardware Windows