Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace this with a newly generated keypair for better security

If during first ‘vagrant up’ you see in log output: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace this with a newly generated keypair for better security. Inserting generated public key within guest… Removing insecure key from the guest if its present… Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key… you can add this ...

Reduce the size of the WinSxS Directory and Free up Disk Space with a New Update for Windows 7

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/10/08/breaking-news-reduce-the-size-of-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-with-a-new-update-for-windows-7-sp1-clients.aspx

TunTap Doesn’t Work on Yosemite

http://moubry.com/blog/2014/10/21/tuntap-doesnt-work-on-yosemite/

An application for building and managing Phars

The Box application simplifies the Phar building process. http://box-project.org/

Can’t purge libapache2-mod-php5, corrupt registry

http://askubuntu.com/questions/406092/cant-purge-libapache2-mod-php5-corrupt-registry I can’t purge libapache2-mod-php5. Give me this error. ucfr: Corrupt registry: Duplicate entries for /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini libapache2-mod-php5 /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini libapache2-mod-php5 /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini sudo nano /var/lib/ucf/registry and remove duplicated php.ini lines from that file

Machine hangs on shutdown/reboot with NFS shared folders for Vagrant?

Add this simple init.d script to save all running virtualboxes on host shutdown or reboot https://gist.github.com/ymc-geha/8416723

Vagrant hangs at ‘vagrant up’ when mounting NFS shared folders

Vagrant hangs, because it needs open ports for NFS. See here how to open this ports:

Allow user to use RAW devices in VirtualBox

To allow user to use RAW disks /f.e. vmdk/ in VirtualBox, you must run: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /path/to/file.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1,5 -relative usermod -a -G disk 'user_name' See more at https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk

TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management

http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html

Exchange + Thunderbird: how to configure

You schould use Lightning and Exchange EWS Provider for Thunderbird