Figuring out what the sed -E option does took me a bit more time than expected, as it turned out to be undocumented.

Presented in this post is a process optimized for the creation of multiple, nearly identical VirtualBox VM clones that may then run side-by-side on a single host.

However lean and streamlined have operating system installation procedures become in recent years, it is always desirable to reduce the amounts of time and user interaction required, especially when you need to conduct a series of (nearly) identical installations. Virtual machine cloning comes to the rescue. This post show how to install a baseline Ubuntu Server on a VirtualBox VM for subsequent cloning.

When you install Ubuntu on a virtual machine, you may notice that the console redraws very slowly, if it was a 300 baud terminal. This post describes solutions to this problem that worked well for me when installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on VirtualBox.

EAC expects track data to be in the ANSI codepage, whereas track data for most Russian CDs is stored in freeDB in the recommended UTF-8 encoding, so I had to write a program to convert it back to ANSI.

Finding possible causes of “Apache 2.2 cannot load php5apache2_2.dll” after PHP upgrade.