Technology
Here’s a support article that explains how to manually removing network adapter entries from the Windows registry.Continue reading...
Last time I P2Ved a Windows 7 machine, I ended not being able to install the VMware tools on it. The menu was just not enabled no matter what I did inside or outside the VM. The solution to have the VMware tools installed is to manually mount the Windows drivers disk image.Continue reading...
I’m using VMware Fusion on the (home) Mac and VMware Workstation on the (work) Windows.
From time to time, I have to share a VM between those two environments. Unfortunately, the NAT range automatically configured by those tools aren’t the same. Here’s how to use the same NAT range :Continue reading...
I created a private certificate authority with OpenSSL on NetBSD tu use in my personal LAN. The certificates are used to authenticate servers in SSL/TLS mode and also to remotely connect to my LAN using VPN.Continue reading...
I recently discover a storage feature named “Data deduplication” also called “Deduplication”.
Quoting Wikipedia:
In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data, typically to improve storage utilization. In the deduplication process, duplicate data is deleted, leaving only one copy of the data to be stored, along with references to the unique copy of data. Deduplication is able to reduce the required storage capacity since only the unique data is stored.
I was first thinking “well, a video/document/… is a file ; and a file is a sets of 0 and/or 1. Like a ZIP archive doesn’t care if it stores pictures or text files, I may be able to use deduplication to store my 32GB of personnal pictures into a smaller storage size… sounds great!”. That’s what I want to figure out.Continue reading...