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sharing files with a qemu guest: the easier way

Posted 05-22-2012 at 03:32 PM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)

This will not be news to any true qemu guru. But for the rest of us: if you search online for information about how to share files with a qemu guest, you are likely to get pointed to some deep tutorial about setting up a TUN/TAP interface involving multiple configuration files and changes to your system permissions. A simpler approach is the -redir option:

Code:

qemu-kvm -hda debian.img -m 512 -redir tcp:5555:22

(The -m option refers to the amount of memory to allocate to...

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aaargh - Windows

Posted 05-19-2012 at 09:32 AM by error_401 (LINUX mostly DEBIAN - hardware and software)
Updated 01-30-2023 at 11:29 AM by error_401 (update 2023)

Have to get this off my head.

Today 2022-12-20 I've spent 2 1/2 hours on installing Windows 10 and 35 minutes on Linux.

As I had this nice Fujitsu Lifebook I wanted it to run my usual flavor of Linux the Debian 11. So today I had some time to spend over lunch. It was a treat with the knowledge on how to prepare the laptop.

The 25 minutes in Windows 8 to prep the laptop, remove all locks and change the boot order in the BIOS.

Then it booted...

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OOo/LibreOffice Calc BASIC: cell display orientation/rotation

Posted 05-18-2012 at 01:45 AM by catkin

There are incorrect examples on the internet of using OOo/LibreOffice BASIC to set Calc cell contents to display vertically, the same as can be done interactively via Format Cell -> Alignment -> Text Orientation and setting the angle to 90 degrees.

The problem is that they show 90 but the units are 1/100ths of a degree so vertical requires 9000.

This works

Code:

oCell.setPropertyValue( "RotateAngle", 9000 )

This does not work (it is here to...

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New project: csvfs

Posted 05-17-2012 at 03:27 PM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)

I started a new project recently called csvfs. It is FUSE-based file system which can represent the data from a CSV file in a hierarchy of directories and files. This allows you to use standard unix text and file processing tools without going to the trouble of processing the CSV format yourself. It uses libcsv for parsing, so it should be very liberal about the exacting formatting of the CSV file.

Functionality is rudimentary, and the file system is currently read only. But alpha...

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Puppy Log

Posted 05-17-2012 at 03:25 AM by markyd
Updated 10-16-2013 at 05:36 AM by markyd

Been a big fan of Puppy Linux for many years, having a bootable USB stick in your pocket in the IT game is a very handy thing. When I got a new work laptop (ooooooh!) my Puppy stick broke due to drivers and time for an upgrade. Oh work laptop is a Dell E5420, nothing special but not bad either.

After a bit of a search in the forums someone suggested I try Precise Puppy 5.3 and I was mighty impressed, both the LAN and WI-FI worked, yey! I am not sure how mainstream Precise is as a...

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