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Comment on Using VirtualBox as your personal server by Tino Kremer

Tino Kremer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:07:50 +0000

VirtualBox works great. I have been using it myself for quite some time, but since I’m running Windows 7 I have switched to Microsoft Virtual PC. It’s nicely integrated in windows, but more important, it runs much smoother. Microsoft needed it’s VM to work well as the “Windows XP mode” is also running on the platform. For those who don’t know, “Windows XP Mode” is what Microsoft offers on e.g. Windows 7 Ultimate to be able to run “old” apps that don’t run on Windows 7 directly. As the VM hosts a full Windows XP installation, everything that worked on Windows XP will work here as well.

Anyway, since I’m using this one the memory requirements has dropped considerably and speed has increased.

Note I’m running Windows as Host and Guest which could be the reason it runs smoother compared to VirtualBox. In Linux there is no Microsoft Virtual PC anyway

Comment on Text editors, Emacs vs Vim by Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:25:42 +0000

For me Vim has completely replaced UltraEdit, Vim has a good Windows version which can even be integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu, it has column editing mode (similar to what UltraEdit offers) and it is completely extensible with Vimscript.

Comment on Text editors, Emacs vs Vim by Tino Kremer

Tino Kremer — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:52 +0000

VIM is a nice editor. I prefer the internal Visual Studio editor though and for the rest of my editing tasks UltraEdit helps me a lot. VIM is the software I always use when editting HTML, PHP and system files on *nix systems

Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 by Mark

Mark — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:27:24 +0000

Yes, I haven’t been able to think of anything good to write for this blog recently

Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 by Tino

Tino — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:18:25 +0000

Bit quiet around here

Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 by Tino

Tino — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:03:34 +0000

I did the same. Still having issues with Twitter Tools though

Comment on VPN in Ubuntu 9.10 by Mark

Mark — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:08:44 +0000

Whether it works or not depends on the type of VPN that you are connecting to. If you’re using something other than PPTP you will need to install different packages, which require different configurations which I have not tried.

Comment on VPN in Ubuntu 9.10 by Sayantan

Sayantan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:29:32 +0000

It does not work. I have installed everything. I get the following errors in the log files

VPN connection ‘office’ failed to connect: ‘No VPN secrets!’.

Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9 by Tino Kremer

Tino Kremer — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:31:54 +0000

Exactly as we like it

Comment on Upgrading Ubuntu server to Karmic on Linode by Mark

Mark — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:22:37 +0000

Well, once I got it right it was a breeze