About a month ago I have unbranded my HTC Desire following the usual instructions. The German one I used has been distilled by Ulrich Wolf. These howtos need you to create a Goldcard – which is not necessary by the new method I found today.
Additionaly, you can root your Desire (or EVO 4G or Droid Incredible, Aria or Eris) by one click and have Nandroid Backup installed in the course. In one word, I found it stunning! Read more »
When talking about Linux, most people really mean that-Linux-Kernel-with-userland-tools. And there are a lot of flavours of that as distrowatch shows. As being asked a lot what and why I use [it], here is the answer: Gentoo. And that’s why: Read more »
One important feature is missing from VMware Server 2 – the ability to make multiple snapshots. And I did not discover how to make snapshot hierarchies with it. (Although it is possible with Workstation 6 – screenshots here.)
That is something you can easily do with Hyper-V. On installing Exchange? Ever tried with/without DC? Forefront? Spamassassin? Combinations? Now it is possible. I have installed a Windows Server 2008, activated it and run a snapshot with Visual Studio installed, another without etc.
You can always revert your VM to a snapshot (in German horribly translated as “Snapshot anwenden”) and, in case you don’t need it anymore, safely delete it. The next time you power off/shutdown your VM the delta will get integrated. Plus, you can assign a different drive for your snapshots. Handy!
Tore Lervik, the programmer behind the sidebar widget, has written a script which utilizes snapshot functionality for backups. But beware: There is no data de-duplication, therefore your backup space will get filled very vigorously:
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