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How To Copy / Clone a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

17 June 2008

You can create a copy or clone of an existing virtual machine (VM) quite easily in Hyper-V … The process is a little different than you might think though. The basic procedure is to export and import a virtual machine. I use my VM’s primarily for separate development sandboxes and test machines, so here’s the [...]

The Reality of QAM HDTV Recording

22 September 2005

I recently procured a FusionHDTV 5 Lite. And last night recorded my very first episode of the new seas0n of Lost!
Here’s the hardware setup
• Pentium 4 1.2GHz
• 1 GB RAM
• 80GB dedicated 7200RPM ATA hard drive
• FusionHDTV 5 Lite!
Software Used
• FusionHDTV recording software and scheduler
• Womble MPEG VCR - for commercial cutting
• FFMPEG (compiled [...]

m0n0wall

19 August 2005

After rolling my own firewall / internet gateway / SMB media server / torrent machine. I decided to give m0n0wall a try out.
pretty darn slick if you ask me. It was a breeze to setup, the network auto-detection is a nice feature, and the SVG based traffic graph is cool eye candy…
In fact I [...]