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Enable AdBlock with Google Chrome

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: November 16, 2009
Google Chrome is an excellent web browser, but until recently was lacking in the extensions department. Here are quick and simple instructions for using AdBlock with the latest version of Chrome for Windows, Mac or Linux: Download and install the latest development version of Google Chrome. Launch Chrome and open the experimental AdBlock+ extension (more information on [...]
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Expanding a Virtual Disk in VMware ESX Server

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: December 20, 2006
It may be necessary at some point to increase the size of a virtual disk on a guest OS. Here’s how to do it without creating a new disk and migrating the data manually: Shut down the VM Expand the virtual disk Log into the ESX server via ssh Navigate to the guest’s storage location (ex: /vmfs/volumes/cx300/guest) Use the vmkfstools [...]
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Squid Caching Appliance

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: August 14, 2006
Content Caching with Squid This guide will present a solution to network bandwidth and latency issues using an application-layer solution that is completely transparent at the network layer. Objective New web-based deployment architectures have placed a strain on wide area network connections. I am attempting to alleviate some of this pain by providing a simple-to-use virtual appliance that [...]
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Does Not Play Well With Others

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: March 2, 2006
There’s an issue with WordPress 2.0+ and its rather aggressive generation of URL rewrite rules. It was never an issue previously, as WordPress would generate mod_rewrite rules to either automatically or manually be updated in the root .htaccess file. As expected, the extra step of chmod-ing the .htaccess file or manually editing the rules was [...]
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