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I needed a virtual machine for debugging some Python memory leaking software without risking the health of my Ubuntu system. VirtualBox was my first choice because of its ease of install (just “apt-get install virtualbox”). Since I wanted to access the VM via ssh (instead of using the VirtualBox console) I found a bit annoying […]

It took me some time to find out how to do this, so I’ll post it here hoping that someone will find it useful.
First of all, “fidsk -l” won’t show all your FreeBSD disklabels, you’ll have to do “cat /proc/partitions” to find the partition you wan’t to mount. If the Kernel has support for disklabels […]

When you have accounts in dozens and dozens of servers, it could be hard to replicate and keep track of all your configuration files (aka. rc files). To be honest, that’s the reason why I never used rc files in the past, and always tried to stick with the default behavior of programs. But, for […]

Have you ever ssh’ed into a remote server and wondered if you could run a program using the connection from that remote server in a transparent and easy way?
Well, you can and it’s quite simple. Here’s the recipe for Linux.
1. Install tsocks using your Linux distribution package manager (preferably) or compiling from source.
2. Add a […]