Create a new VMWare Appliance from existing one

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I use VMware player to run Maemo SDK environment. Recently Maemo released the latest version of its SDK - Diablo. So, I decided to upgrade Chinook VMware Appliance to Diablo. I copied maemo-sdk.vmdk (virtual disk) and maemo-sdk.vmx (definitions) to the new directory, modified title in the definition and run VMware player. But after booting I [...]

CSV files and IE

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Today I spent about three hours to play with “extremely practical and user friendly” interface of WinXP. The problem was that Windows is too smart (at least for me). It tries to foresee your desires. But as result you wast your time to switch off next “intelligent” feature. In my case I heed to [...]

Improve Your Perl Programming

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Brian Foy - the author of Mastering Perl and one of the famous perlmonks, wrote an article on the ONLAMP where described five ways to improve Perl programming:

Cleaning up your code - I also hate to read unformatted code -without tabs, proper style etc.
Use configuration - sure, my favorite module - Config::General.
Logging - log4perl [...]

tar: Howto Exclude or Include Files

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

Recently I’ve had a little problem. I’ve needed to create an archive from some source directories but I’ve not needed to add in the archive some subdirectorives. I’ve made a quick search in Google and found an article “Telling tar Which Files to Exclude or Include”. Here is a short example:

$ find videoguide/ ! -type [...]