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You can install VMware ESXi on VirtualBox without having to deal with real hardware. Sure, the performances are not so good, but this setup it’s a little test lab you can use to take confidence with the ESXi platform. The only limitation is you can virtualize only 32bit systems. Not a Read more…
The task of the day: extract all images from a PDF file. I have found a little utility on my Linux box called pdfimages (it’s from the package xpdf). With this great command line tool you can save all the graphics from the file (as you can see from the Read more…
Today I have to choose an operating system to replace a very old server with Windows 2000. Usually, when I have to do tasks like this one, I like getting my hands dirty with the old school approach: choose a very good Linux distribution (maybe CentOS) and setup all the Read more…
This summer I was in holiday in Greece (you know, to help the economy and for the stunning sea 🙂 ) and I have solved all my Internet needs with a very great device: Huawei E5331 This little white box is a Wi-Fi access point (up to 8 concurrent clients) Read more…
I have published a page teaching how to install OpenELEC (an embedded operating system built specifically to run XBMC) directly into the HDD instead of a USB key/memory card. The tutorial includes also GRUB modifications and more 🙂
Some days ago I have received from UPS a brand new Raspberry Pi Model B! I have made some tests and experiments and I’ll create some pages about it. As always, configuring, installing and using something can be difficult and the Raspberry Pi is not an exception 🙂
Apple’s Time Machine software made it easy to set up incremental back-ups, with one exception: network drives (more formally called network-attached storage, or NAS). Time Machine only directly supports drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+J file system, and will eventually use all disk space on the drive. This page provides an Read more…
This web app can share your screen (it’s a view only application, not like VNC/remote desktop) to who you want. This is a great solution to help friends (or maybe also customers) watching directly the remote screen. It’s safe and easy (it uses JAVA to do the trick – so Read more…
Today, trying to slice an image with Gimp, with my Kubuntu Oneiric I have found this strange error message: “TypeError in slice(): integer argument expected, got float”. This is a well know bug, but until it will be fixed, you can fix it by yourself. Run from the terminal your Read more…
I’m a huge fan of Simple Backup for many reasons (simple personal backup configuration, settings profile, etc…). The last Ubuntu version, Oneiric Ocelot, contains a bug preventing SBackup from running from a system wide cron-job and storing the backup data on remote drive. If you have this problem, from the Read more…