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.
Resolving Redefinition Errors Betwen ws2def.h and winsock.h
Resolving redefinition warnings and errors between ws2def.h and winsock.h.
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.
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.
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.
HOWTO: Extract Directory from Mercurial Repo with Full History
How to Extract Directory from Mercurial Repository into its Own Repo with Full Revision History
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.
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: […]
Signal a Windows Application to Terminate from Another Process
Signaling one Windows Process to terminate from another process via a named event object.
Silently Terminate on Abort/Unhandled Exception in Windows
Preventing unwanted end-user notification dialogs when your Windows application unexpectedly terminates.