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wget stuff

Many times when downloading via command line large files you might want to run it in the background and forget about it. you can run this is screen however its also good to use wget options. one quicky is to do wget -bqc url -b is to background as soon as starting -c is to resume broken downloads -q is to quiet wget

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VirtualBox – how to create and share disks to setup/test clusters

Once in a while you will want to setup clusters with shared disks to test and play around with various clusters. while this is easy to do in kvm/xen/etc its not so easy with virtualbox. There is a way via command line tools to create disks and attaching it so that it is shared. For me I have windows 7 64bit and I am running virtualbox 64bit 4.xxxxx. It is most likely easier if you include the path for “c:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox” however if you do not its ok. We will need to run the command VBoxManage or “c:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe” if… Continue Reading