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Copy – Clone Virtual Box Hard Disk
If you have setup a virtual box disk and want to duplicate it so you can run more than one at a time (which is very useful when creating and testing social websites) you can run [code] VBoxManage clonevdi ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ubuntu.vdi ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ubuntu2.vdi [\code] That will create an exact copy but with a different UUID (which needs [...]
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: VirtualBox
Crack Zip Password
There is a tool fcrackzip which will bruteforce zip file encryption. See here at ubuntugeek.com Make sure to use the -u option otherwise you will probably be overloaded with many “possible” passwords and no confirmed passwords, as I found. I have tried it on a simple text file zipped with password “pass”, found the password [...]
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: zip
Finally Developing on Ubuntu
It has been a long day coming but it is here!! After convincing my boss not to spend upwards of $4000 on a MacBook Pro and instead hand over $2000 of his credit card (wasn’t a hard sell), I have now built my second PC.
In: Ubuntu Tricks, Web Development · Tagged with: Ubuntu 8.10
Unix tar gzip a folder then unzip it (ssh/telnet/terminal)!
tar -cvzf <filename>.tar.gz <folder-name> CREATE A GZIP ARCHIVE tar -xvzf <filename>.tar.gz (which will create a folder named <folder-name> in the current directory) EXTRACT A GZIP ARCHIVE If you need to then send that via scp (secure copy) scp <filename>.tar.gz <username>@<domain>:/<path_to_file>/<filename>.tar.gz SEND A FILE TO REMOTE SERVER or scp images.tar.gz john@wetware.co.nz:/home/john/images.tar.gz
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: Archive, GZip, SCP, Tar
What do you fly?
OS: Ubuntu 7.10 64bit VPS on Virtuozzo with Open host Two CPU’s 384mb Ram (no swap) OS: Ubuntu 9.04 on Xen One CPU, 400mb Ram (with some swap) Now moved to Rimuhosting.com Apache2 PHP Rails Enterprise Edition Phusion Passenger™ MySql Postgresql
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: rimu hosting, Ubuntu 8.10, vps, xen
