Posted on November 1, 2009 by symbolik
NOTE: This is only an overview. Due to the detailed nature of this project, I will break it up over several more-focused articles over time for easier reference.
Well, despite my more negative impression of this year’s VMworld conference, it still really paid off. There I learned about stateless ESX deployment. Using this information, I was [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2008 by symbolik
I found this while surfing Linux.com. Very handy if you are into shell scripting (and who isn’t?, haha).
Speaking UNIX
Enjoy!
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by symbolik
I got the inspiration for this script from CoolTechie’s blog. He made a script to display cricket match scores from a web site. I decided to have a little fun with it, so made one of my own that periodically checks this blog and displays a popup window if the hit counter has changed, [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2007 by symbolik
My wife likes YouTube.
A *lot*.
I had found out how to make MP3 files from the audio sections of the FLV files, so she wanted to know if I could set things up for her to do this on her own.
Of course I said yes.
So, first step was downloading the video from YouTube. That was [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2007 by symbolik
At my work, I use Windows XP (running on VMWare Server). I have also established an intranet using OpenStar CMS (described as a premium value-added version of PostNuke), riding on Apache2 web server. This effort has led me inexorably down the road to programming and editing code (PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.). [...]
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