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Setting up the developer stack issues
There’s a great post on Coding Horror about Configuring the Stack. Basically the gripe is with the complexity of installing the typical developer stack, in this case on Windows, using Visual Studio. My VS setup isn’t vastly different to the one Je…
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Setting a remote key through ssh
One of the steps I find myself doing a lot is distributing round an ssh key so that I can login and use different machines automatically. To help in that process I created a small function in my bash profile script (acutally for me it’s in .bash_a…
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Geekbench results for iMac 24
I’ve just completed running Geekbench results for my 24″ iMac (3GB, Intel T7600, 2.33GHz) and the Sun Ultra 20M2 I have on test (4GB, AMD Opteron 1200 2.8GHz). The overall rates are interesting: iMac: 246* U20M2: 273.5* The U20M2 is slightly faste…
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Parallels Update
Parallels for Mac has been updated, but its the stuff beyond the highlight elements that I find most interesting. The headline elements are: Support for the new Mac Pro (and up to 3.5GB RAM Support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Experimental support …
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Getting Solaris 10 working in Parallels
I’ve just been sent the latest version of Solaris 6/06 release) and wanted to get it working in a Parallels virtual machine. Not everything is plain sailing, but with a combination of past experience and a few quick configuration changes you can g…
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Stepped execution with cron and at
I had a query from a reader today as a follow up to my System Administrators Toolkit: Time and event management article at developerWorks: How do I execute a script at a specific interval, for example 28 days, rather than on a specific day or date…