Things to check out for April 26, 2012

Posted: April 26th, 2012 | Author: | Tags: | No Comments »
  1. Modern Web Development
  2. 10 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
  3. Meeting Grunt, the Build Tool for JavaScript
  4. Jquery-popbox by gristmill

Resetting UUID on VirtualBox VDIs

Posted: May 12th, 2010 | Author: | Tags: , , | No Comments » 
VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid /Volumes/External/VPC/bases/virtual_machine.vdi

Take that VirtualBox Virtual Hard Disk Manger… with all your not letting me add copies of my base virtual machines.

Shrinking VirtualBox VDI Images

Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Author: | Tags: , | No Comments »

1) Defrag

Multiple passes isn’t a bad idea.

2) Compress null characters

I have had fine luck with the simple “nullfile” executable. I’ve included downloadable builds for both 32bit (nullfile-1.02) and 64 bit (nullfile-1.01_64bit) environments.

3) Shrink the VDI

VBoxManage modifyvdi /Volumes/External/VPC/virtual_machine.vdi compact

And while this all runs quite smoothly for me, I can’t say I’m entirely impressed with the results I’ve seen so far.