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Norway Online shops and e-marketplaces registered in the VOEC register~ Rename multiple files~ How to install your public key in the remote machine’s authorized_keys~ How to redirect stderr and stdout in Bash~ ssh local tunneling – access home from remote location~ Run one process (or more) into tmux~ Regexp hints~ Why is it modern to be non-Java? Java have a high reputation for being solid and scalable in large enterprise solutions~ How to add speaker notes to reveal~ How do I access variables from the main class from another class (java)?~ How to resize a VirtualBox vmdk file~ How to Delete Auto Backup Photos without a plugin.~ Get the list of the tables in Oracle~ SpinRite~ Varnish~ Set Gmail as Your Browser’s Default Email Client with a Simple Hack~ Booting Operating System from USB Drive in VMware Fusion 3.x~ Add Quick Launch to Taskbar~ How to add Tumblr to your Google Buzz feed~ Export CSV with custom delimiter~ How to Install Windows 7 from USB Flash Drive~ Google G1 MMS / Internet settings. Vodafone UK~ Magento installation problem “innoDB storage engine is not supported”~ Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo~ Security Master Code For Nokia~ HDR Bracketing with the D90~ MarkerClusterer with custom icons and data from a XML file.~ Chrooting SFTP users in Ubuntu 9.10~ How to create a chroot ssh user in Ubuntu~ Import Excel Data into MySQL in 5 Easy Steps~ XPS 1530 – How to boot ubuntu using MediaDirect Button and windows 7 with the power button~ Google Bookmark don’t load with Firefox on Ubuntu~ Google Chat Video doesn’t install…~ How to Protect Your Wi-Fi Network from the WPA Hack~
How to resize a VirtualBox vmdk file

How to resize a VirtualBox vmdk file

The below command will resize the image to 50GB VBoxManage clonehd "source.vmdk" "cloned.vdi" –format vdi VBoxManage modifyhd "cloned.vdi" –resize 51200 VBoxManage clonehd "cloned.vdi" "resized.vmdk" –format vmdk

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How to Delete Auto Backup Photos without a plugin.

How to Delete Auto Backup Photos without a plugin.

i. Open “Instant Upload” under your Google+ Photos ii. Hit the End key. Your browser window will scroll down to the bottom of what’s currently displayed. Since Google+ will load up more photos, hit End again. Repeat as necessary. iii. Click and drag from below…

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Get the list of the tables in Oracle

Get the list of the tables in Oracle

The corresponding mysql command “show tables” in oracle is: SELECT table_name FROM user_tables

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SpinRite

SpinRite

SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces. When the program encounters a sector with errors that cannot be corrected by the disk drive’s error-correcting code, it tries to…

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Varnish

Varnish

Varnish is my faviourite cache server, here I list bits and pieces on that I’ve picked up when working with this very fast and sparsely documented cache server. Find the least cached URIs To improve your cache hit ratio, the best thing to do is…

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Set Gmail as Your Browser’s Default Email Client with a Simple Hack

Set Gmail as Your Browser’s Default Email Client with a Simple Hack

Open Gmail in Chrome. Press Ctrl+Shift+J (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+J (Mac) to open Chrome’s built-in JavaScript console. Paste the following into the console and press Enter: navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto", "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s", "Gmail"); Chrome will prompt you, asking if you’d like to “Allow Gmail (mail.google.com) to open all email links?” Click…

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Booting Operating System from USB Drive in VMware Fusion 3.x

Booting Operating System from USB Drive in VMware Fusion 3.x

There are a lot of how-to guides on the internet to create a bootable Windows7 USB drive. Unfortunately you can’t boot such a USB stick out of the box fromVMware Fusion on Mac OS X. But there are workarounds to get the USB based Operating System booting…

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Add Quick Launch to Taskbar

Add Quick Launch to Taskbar

1. Right click on a empty space on the taskbar, then select (hover on) Taskbar and click on New Toolbar. (See screenshot below) 2. In the Folder line, type or copy the location below. (See screenshot below) %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch 3. Click on the Select Folder button. (See screenshot above) 4. You now have a Quick…

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How to add Tumblr to your Google Buzz feed

How to add Tumblr to your Google Buzz feed

Go to your Google profile and copy down the URL for the page. Click Edit Profile Scroll down to add links and add a link to your Tumblr site and save your profile. (Make sure to tick “This page is specifically about me”) Edit your Tumblr template…

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Export CSV with custom delimiter

Export CSV with custom delimiter

It is a bit weired that there isn’t any other straight forward method. You can either create or find a macro or the easiest way is to: Go to your window start button, yes the window one, not the excel start button! Choose Control Panel…

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