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Using Amazon Glacier on Linux

Amazon Glacier Amazon provides a low cost backup service called Amazon Glacier which a payment plan reflecting the amount of data that you store with a price in the range of $ 0.01 per GB. However beware of the other costs for requests and especially the fee related to requesting …

One-way Synchronization with sFTP

Here is a solution that allows synchronization (mirroring) of a sFTP folder with a local folder. The solution provided here uses the free WinSCP program. An alternative to this approach could be the paid software GoodSync which is fairly easy to use. Tasks Download and install WinScp and add it …

SourceForge Git auto-login in Windows 7

TortoiseGit auto log-in at SourceForge can be achieved through key authentication through Putty. The first step is to create a key set go to the putty section from the link below  https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/SSH%20keys Now associate the public SSH key with your SourceForge account https://sourceforge.net/account/ssh Finally you need to configure Putty to know about …

Open shared calender in Exchange webmail 2010

To open a shared calender you need to have access and the following commands: https://webmail.iha.dk/owa/<mail address of the calender owner>/?cmd=contents&module=calendar   Views Links Calendar View – Default – Daily https://<server name>/owa/<SMTP address>/?cmd=contents&module=calendar Calendar View – Daily https://<server name>/owa/<SMTP address>/?cmd=contents&f=Calendar&view=Daily Calendar View – Weekly https://<server name>/owa/<SMTP address>/?cmd=contents&f=Calendar&view=Weekly Calendar View – Daily …

Assign new uuid to Virtual Box Harddrive

I recently had to copy a  VirtualBox HD image and didn’t use the build-in support which resulted in problems with UUID’s not matching or being duplicates of each other. To solve this I used the following command to generate and reassign a new UUID to my disk copies. VBoxManager.exe internalcommands sethduuid image.vdi for newer …

Symbolic links in Windows

To make a symbolic link in Windows 7 use the “mklink” command. Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target         /D      Creates a directory symbolic link.  Default is a file symbolic link.         /H      Creates a hard link …

Hosting iTunes as a Windows Service

To host iTunes as a Windows Service under a User Account and not a system account this small program can be sued: http://www.johncleary.net/2009/11/download-jtunes-here/ It enables you to install the service start/stop it and so it can run without a concrete user is logged in and have the program running. (Note: …