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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:55 AM

Reduce the size of a virtual hard disk before delivery for reuse

When delivering a virtual hard disk to your team to build their virtual machines on I perform the following steps to minimize the size of the virtual hard disk. It is assumed that Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is installed. Make sure you merged the Undo...
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Monday, January 07, 2008 11:36 PM

VirtualPC/Virtual Server machine at higher resolution than 1600x1200!

I have always been so annoyed by the fact that on my laptop with 1920x1200 resolution I could only get a connection to my virtual machines at a resolution of 1600x1200, the max resolution by the emulates S3 graphics board, resulting in two 160 pixesl...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:58 AM

youOS, a web operating system. The ultimate AJAX application

I can't remember how I stumbled across YouOS , but I must say I'm impressed. YouOS is a web operating system running in your browser. It provides a shared virtual server where multiple people can run their applications and interact with eachother. It...
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Monday, December 18, 2006 1:37 AM

PowerShell: "Cleaning" a path name, searching for smarter solution...

When you construct a path in powershell with for example Join-Path, you can get things like ".."in your path. For example: Join-Path -Path "c:\program files" -ChildPath "..\Temp" results in: "c:\program files\..\Temp" Instead of: "c:\Temp" I had to solve...
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Monday, December 11, 2006 10:46 AM

PowerShell Community Extensions 1.0 Released @ CodePlex

Keith Hill released the PowerShell Community Extensions version 1.0 at http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX . This well documented set of extra CmdLets, aliases and scripts provides you with a lot of goodies that make life in both PowerShell as a Shell...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006 4:28 PM

ohloh.net: actual facts on 3000 open-source projects with 220 million lines of source code - impressive!!

Thanks to born2code (Dutch blogger) I was introduced to the impressive site http://ohloh.net , a directory of open-source projects where the code repositories of the projects are crawled to gather all kinds of statistic and historical facts. http://ohloh...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:11 AM

It is possible to run VMware images and Windows Server 2003 on Amazon's EC2!!

I just got a reaction on my blog post Microsoft and virtualisation: Amazon EC2 functionality using Windows Hypervisor technology code-named Viridian? from Reuven . See http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=12540&tstart...
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Friday, February 24, 2006 9:58 PM

MSDN Magazine's available as handy .chm files

I heard it before but never looked at it: the MSDN magazines are also available as handy .chm files! Ohad Israeli posted a comment on this blog post about problems reading .chm files due to security restrictions, with a link to the collection of .chm...
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:54 PM

Chm files and 404 Errors

I must say I was amazed that when I downloaded the latest Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Administrators Guide I only got 404 errors on every page in the contents. I downloaded the file another time, to no avail. I gave up and thought: well, the file...
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Saturday, February 04, 2006 10:34 PM

Olaf Conijn from Macaw in the Netherlands: patterns&practices champion!

One of our youngest collegues becomes a patterns&practices champion!! A smart guy with a bright future!! See his blog at http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/olaf/default.aspx . See the e-mail below! Congratulations to this community's newest "patterns...
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