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Recommendation: Vagrant and Veewee
Note: I’ve decided not to use Veewee due to silly compatibility issues for now. Quoting from Vagrant’s web site: Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. By providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox, Vagrant provides the tools to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual…
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My Linux Mint 12 KDE 64-bit setup on Lenovo w520
Question: is there a reliable and consistent way to use an external monitor running Linux on Lenovo w520? I’ve tried many ways without avail: Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, Sabayon with various desktops, nouveou, bumblebee, Nvidia’s drivers, tinkering BIOS. To me as an IT professional, Nvidia Optimus is a net negative, because it makes it impossible…
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Come and join the Oak Park IT Group
Here is the URL for the impatient: http://www.meetup.com/The-Oak-Park-IT-group/ The group is free to join. I like user groups. Over the years, I’ve been to SQL Server, MySQL, and Linux user group meetings, learned and shared with my colleagues. The quality of the meetings fluctuates and I like some sessions better than others. However, after a…
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Increase disk size of VirtualBox Windows virtual machines
1. Shut down the VM if it is running; 2. On CLI, run: VBoxManage modifyhd /directory/myWindowsVM.vdi –resize numberInMB 3. Start VM -> Manage Computer -> Disk Management 4. If you want to give the space to the existing drive, right click on said drive -> Extend Volume… and follow instructions 5. If you want to…
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A great way to test-drive MySQL from MariaDB, Oracle, and Percona
I was doing some research on Percona Server, and came across this great tip by Baron: if you are using Oracle’s MySQL and want to test out and learn new/improved features that are present in Percona Server, you can just stop the mysqld instance, extract Percona Server binary from its rpm/deb package or tarball file,…