What do Michael Jordan, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Lucille Ball, Ulysses S. Grant, and The Beatles have in common?
Month: June 2010
Copying ElasticFox Tags from One Browser to Another
The ElasticFox Firefox extension allows you to tag EC2 instances, EBS volumes, EBS snapshots, Elastic IPs, and AMIs. ElasticFox’s tags are stored locally within Firefox, so if you use ElasticFox from more than one browser your tags from one browser are not visible in any other browser. Also, if your browser crashes you may lose […]
“Tech Star” – Parody of Nickelback’s “Rock Star”
Tech Star Lyrics I’m through with standing in line for a bullshit promotion,Working for a luddite who ain’t got a notion.This career hasn’t turned out quite the way I want it to be. (So tell me what you want?) I want to join a start-up in the digital space,And build a rock star business just […]
Clonezilla
You’re probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You’ve probably also heard of Symantec’s solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an […]
Clonezilla Kicks Ghost’s Ass!
Back in ’93 I found a great little utility called Ghost, which could quickly and easily clone DOS or Windows (3.1, 95, NT) computers. I used to teach week-long IT training classes and had to set a dozen or so computers back to default settings in order for each class to start fresh. Ghost.exe was […]
Swiss File Knife – the open source file tree processor
Swiss File Knife is a free multi function command line tool that belongs onto every USB stick. SFK can be downloaded from sourceforge. this package contains binaries, source and buildscripts for Windows and Linux. You may also download just the Windows executable sfk.exe or the Linux binary for Ubuntu or DSL. No installation, no registry […]