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VMware Magic - Live conversion of a physical Linux machine to a virtual machine!

// August 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // Linux, Tools, Troublesolving, Ubuntu, VMWare

I can’t tell you how many times VMware has amazed me throughout the years. It (and others like Microsoft Virtual PC) has come a long way in the recent years due to the increasing popularity and demand of virtualization solutions. I use virtual machines every day. At home I have VMware Fusion on my Macs [...]

Using Visual Studio 2010 CTP with VMWare

// April 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // .Net, VMWare, Visual Studio

I recently need to run Visual Studio 2010 October 2008 CTP with VMWare since Microsoft Virtual PC can’t handle USB at all. For my company that is a big limitation since we have hardware locks that sits in the USB port. VMWare to the rescue!
Step one is to convert the Virtual PC image to [...]

Solving Visual Studio’s trust issues

// April 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // .Net, Security, Troublesolving, Visual Studio

I use Subversion for all my code. I also like to keep my checked out code on a mapped network share since it has backup and is accessible from outside my main dev machine. With this setup you will sooner or later (probably sooner) run into the problem with Visual Studio not trusting the network [...]

Generating C# from an UML model with T4

// April 7th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // .Net, T4, Tools, UML

It would take quite a few blog entries to cover all that goes into the heading of this post. So I won’t do that :-). I’ll try to be short.
First some background though. I’m using a product called Enterprise Architect to do all my UML modeling. It is a decent product that is not too [...]

EXT3 and reserved space for Super User

// March 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Linux, Troublesolving, Ubuntu

Now that is what I call a stellar title for a blog post! If you instantly get that, you have probably been fiddling with Linux for a while.
Well then, let the me explain myself. This is mostly a note to self so I know what to do the next time I run into this. [...]

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