Installing Windows 7 Beta 1 in VirtualBox 2.1.0
In: VirtualBox|Windows
Written by: Taylor Gerring
If you’ve snagged yourself a copy of Windows 7 Beta 1 and are anxious to give it a whirl, installing it in a virtualized environment is a great way to go. It’s no secret that VirtualBox is my favorite VM application, so I wanted to mention a bit of advice for getting it working properly.
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- Tags: HOWTO, VirtualBox, Windows 7
SOCKS Proxy with PuTTY and SSH
In: Windows
Written by: Taylor Gerring
For whatever reason, you’ve decided that you want to connect back home to encrypt your network traffic. If you’re on a Windows box and have the SSH server already installed and accessible, you can be up and running in minutes. Popular reasons for doing this include usurping corporate firewall control and hiding network traffic on an unencrypted WiFi link.
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Running multiple X11 sessions
In: Linux
Written by: Taylor Gerring
Got a misbehaving application preventing logout or maybe there’s a game that demands then entirety of your screen? There’s a couple of different ways to start a second X11 instance, both of which are very easy to use. One requires just a few keystrokes, and the other allows you to embed one session within your existing.
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- Tags: HOWTO, Linux, Ubuntu, X11
VirtualBox 2.1 new features
In: Linux|Mac|VirtualBox|Windows
Written by: Taylor Gerring
Today, Sun released VirtualBox 2.1, and it seems that the new features really pack a punch. I wanted to share those new features and my thoughts on each.
First, the summarized new features according to the Changelog, with my personal favorites with emphasis:
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- Tags: Review, Software, VirtualBox
Unsigned integer data types
In: SQL Server
Written by: Taylor Gerring
I’m sure there are more posts like these to come, but I just wanted to get this out there. It’s been a small annoyance of mine that carried over from my MySQL days, but why aren’t there unsigned numerics in SQL Server?
Why do I have to waste a whole bit on the sign in IDENTITY columns, possibly causing me to choose a larger data type, doubling my storage requirements for that column from 4-byte INT to 8-byte BIGINT?
Can we get by with what we have now? Absolutely
Are there workarounds to emulate the behavior? Sorta
Would this be terribly difficult to implement? Doubtful
So whadyasay? Can we have native data type support for unsigned integers?
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- Tags: Analysis, Database, MySQL, SQL Server
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