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VirtualBox on Windows 7 Host with Raw Disk Access – Solution to Randomly Changing Disc Assignment Numbers

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); UPDATE, 2013-07-01: I’ve had people coming back saying they can’t see some drives using this method. There is an explanation for this. The tl;dr is that Microsoft placed a hard limit of 4 drives/partitions, because Windows NT (!!) could theoretically only boot from a maximum of 4 partitions it

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Linux Tips & Tricks

Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems

Learn how to get the X11rdp binary up and running, for use with the xrdp package.

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Linux Tips & Tricks

Problem with Virtualbox 4.1 and Teleporting

Ugh.

My websites are self-hosted and run in virtual machines by way of Virtualbox. I have two physical servers, both can access the virtual drives used by my VM’s via LVM partitions on a separate NAS, which means if I need to I can teleport the VM’s from one physical server to another, and perform

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Japan Nuclear Accident

Radiation Map of Fukushima – and Useful Links *Updated*

This post contains a recently created radiation map of Fukushima prefecture.

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Linux Tips & Tricks

Problems with virtualbox 4.0.2 and linux kernel 2.6.38? Here’s a solution..

Just copy/paste this entire line into a terminal window…

sudo cd /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost && for file in `grep “autoconf.h” * -R| cut -f1 -d:`; do sed -i ‘s/^#\(\s*\)include <linux\/autoconf\.h>/#\1include <generated\/autoconf.h>/g’ $file; done

Then type;

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

The virtualbox driver should now compile.

The file “autoconf.h” has been moved in more recent kernels from <linux/autoconf.h> to

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Linux Tips & Tricks

Ubuntu Natty, xrdp, gnome-session, “No valid session found.”

Ubunut Natty is now underway, and Ubuntu want to push its use of Unity desktop manager. I however wish to use the gnome-desktop without any fancy-schmancy features, because I remotely log in to that machine via xrdp.

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Linux Tips & Tricks

Solution to Ubuntu 10.10 and xrdp sesman crashes on 2nd login.

Solution to xrdp-sesman crashing on Ubuntu 10.04 on second login attempt.

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Indoor grower

Grower Update : Lettuce : 2010-09-19

Lettuce seems to be coming along nicely so far.

Next time I'll sow seeds in neat rows.

Developing nicely.

Next up will be strawberries! Yum.

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Grower Update : Assembly : 2010-09-14


Indoor vegetable grower which blends in with your living room

Hardware Hacking

Grower Update : Assembly : 2010-09-14

I added a red/blue LED grow lamp to the bottom level.

Lookin' good.

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Indoor grower

Grower Update : Lettuce : 2010-09-08

After I built my indoor grower, I sowed some lettuce seeds.

"Sunny Lettuce" in Japanese. Looks delicious.

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