Archive for January, 2009

Clone your VirtualBox VM.

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Most people think that when they copy a .vdi file and import it, they have an actual clone of the virtual machine.
Although it is partially true, the virtual machine will not work because VirtualBox assigns a unique identity number (UUID) to each disk image, which also stored inside the image. VirtualBox will refuse to [...]

Vyatta beating Cisco and Juniper with Open Source

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

The Vyatta Community Edition (VC) is award-winning, Linux-based, open source software providing routing, firewalling, VPN, intrusion prevention, and WAN load balancing services, among others, for your network. When you run Vyatta on a standard x86 hardware system, you’ll create a powerful network appliance that can run circles around proprietary systems. Vyatta also runs virtualized [...]

Lower Lotus Notes 8 startup time

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Starting Lotus Notes 8 is slow. Here is a tip on how you can decrease the startup time.
Just modify the shortcut for starting Notes from …\notes.exe to …..\notes.exe -sa or just start nlnotes.exe

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