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This is a page for my reference. Starting a VM remotely: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on XXX

Other people have posted about the crazy situation of logging frameworks in Java. So, Java has a "built in" logging system called java.util.logging (JUL). But everyone seems to have been using Log4J. There are aspects I like from JUL (log.entering/...

Ever been walking around a town, and wondered if there's a shorter way to get to where you're going? Or wondered if you going down that side road and over the roundabout is shorter than the way you usually go? Well, you can work it out with Google...

I always forget the right letters to make Java formatted dates, so I wrote a little DateFormatter. It might be useful to other people, so I've linked it from here. It uses AJAX, so enable that there Javascript for the page.

A day ago, my laptop froze for about 15 seconds. When it recovered, I ran dmesg, and saw lots of lovely things like this:[117003.557104] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [117003.557107] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 [117003.557...

I'm not a "train person", really I'm not. But one day, driving through Yeovil, we saw a steam train in the station waiting to depart, so we thought we'd turn around, and watch it. They're surprisingly loud and impressive machines. You can see a...

Android phones are all the rage. If you're not an Apple-devotee, which I'm not, then an Android phone seems like the alternative. I'd previously been a Nokia user, and I've liked all their phones. N80, N95, N97, N900. People kept mocking me for usin...

Encona Hot Pepper sauce is something I stumbled across in a little garage somewhere, when I didn't have anything vaguely hot in the cupboards. And it's become a firm favourite. If you like your hot spicy sauces, then go for it. It lives in Waitros...

Problem I've had random hangs running Linux (Fedora 14) on my HP EliteBook 8530W (an excellent laptop btw (the only hardware that doesn't work in Linux is the fingerprint scanner)). The symptoms are: The audio starts looping over the last 1 secon...

If you're having problems with your Linux box, and you know someone who can fix it, but you're behind a NAT device, and they can't access your box, you can forward your SSH port to them. They will need to create you an account on their box This assu...