Author Archives: ZachB

HOWTO: Setup a Locally Authoritative DNS Server on Ubuntu 9.10

How to setup a locally authoritative DNS server on a LAN with Ubuntu 9.10. These instructions should work almost entirely on Ubuntu 10.x without modification.

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Resolving Redefinition Errors Betwen ws2def.h and winsock.h

Resolving redefinition warnings and errors between ws2def.h and winsock.h.

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HOWTO: Configure a Local NTP Server on Ubuntu 9.10

Setting up an Network Time Protocol (NTP) server and configuring NTP clients on a LAN with Ubuntu 9.10.

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HOWTO: Using cpio to Copy a Partition in Linux

Using cpio to copy everything from one partition to another in Linux, maintaining all file permissions, symlinks, and timestamps.

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HOWTO: Rebuild a Software RAID 5 Array After Replacing a Disk

How to rebuild a software RAID 5 array after replacing a failed hard disk on CentOS linux.

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HOWTO: Extract Directory from Mercurial Repo with Full History

How to Extract Directory from Mercurial Repository into its Own Repo with Full Revision History

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HOWTO: VMWare Server on CentOS 5.4

Installing and configuring VMware Server 2.0 on CentOS 5.4 x86-64. Optimization tips/tricks and a workaround for a glibc/vmware incompatibility.

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TortoiseSVN Cache (TSVNCache.exe) and Disk I/O

I’ve had a long standing fight with TortoiseSVN‘s TSVNCache.exe both in terms of disk I/O performance and it holding locks to files/folders I want to work with. Turns out that you can set which directories it watches with an include/exclude list under Settings->Icon Overlays. Thanks to Travis Illig for the blog post on this issue: […]

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Signal a Windows Application to Terminate from Another Process

Signaling one Windows Process to terminate from another process via a named event object.

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Silently Terminate on Abort/Unhandled Exception in Windows

Preventing unwanted end-user notification dialogs when your Windows application unexpectedly terminates.

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