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Not my month for machines

First my PowerBook started putting itself to sleep. So I had it replaced with another PowerBook that crashes seven times a day. One day last week my FreeBSD desktop and the PowerBook managed to crash simultaneously. Just now the...
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VMBuilder

So everyone knows that VMware Player is free, but it doesn't let you create virtual machines; only play existing ones. Luckily, the .vmx file format is a simple plain-text format and there are tools out there that will help you...
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BotCheck out, Akismet in

I finally got tired of seeing the intermittent garbled characters in the CAPTCHA displayed by BotCheck in my comment form. I dug my API key out of an old email and set up Akismet and disabled BotCheck. So far so good. I was...