Author: Marc

Linux

Resizing a QEMU virtual machine, partition, and filesystem

I setup a QEMU virtual machine the other day so that I could play with Gentoo Linux, which we were talking about at work on Wednesday. Unfortunately, as I was halfway through the install process untarring the large Portage tree,...

GtDProductivityPython

PyGTD

PyGTD, by Keith Martin, is an interesting little Python command-line program for GTD. You input your projects, tasks, and contexts into some specially formatted files and run this program and it spits out a todo.txt file which is...

Windows

Fixing Windows Update error 0xC800021F

I was trying to run Windows Update and Microsoft Update to get all the updates for a Windows 2000 installation that I'm running in a QEMU virtual machine on my Ubuntu Linux box, but it kept failing with error 0xC800021F. Luckily,...

GadgetsTreo

Seidio Treo 650 Hotsync cable – with a Hotsync button!

Seidio Treo 650 Hotsync cable - with a Hotsync button!, originally uploaded by msabramo. Great accessory. My Boxwave miniSync seemed to be acting flakey (couldn't get Hotsyncs to work, I suspect it takes too much abuse in my...

GeneralPalmTreoWindows

Anyone try Avvenu with their Treo?

Avvenu is a program that lets you remotely access files on your Windows PC from your Treo. Anyone try it? These days my PC is running Linux instead of Windows but I suppose if this were good, I could keep Windows running all the...

Firefox

Xinha Here! Awesome Firefox extension

Great Firefox extension. Xinha Here allows you to right click on any textarea in a page and select Xinha Here to fire up a nice WYSIWYG HTML editor in a separate window. Bolding, italics, bulleted lists, links, images, etc. are...

DebianLinux

Building QEMU with KQEMU accelerator

Using some of the tips at this page, I was able to build QEMU along with the KQEMU accelerator kernel module on my Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) system. Performance is pretty impressive....