The Four Pillars on Index Funds âȞ Get Rich Slowly (-)
TaleSlinger on Jul 09 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
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TaleSlinger on May 10 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
This is a pretty funny look at an Oil Company ad which purports to show where the cost of gasoline goes.
Mr. Colbert points out that according to the ad, there’s no place for profit.
Clip from Comedy Central below:
TaleSlinger on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
Mysterious stranger video with Mark Twain in claymation. Very creepy.
TaleSlinger on Apr 27 2008 | Filed under: Entertainment
Here’s a short video showing a prediction that Darwin made 150 years ago that was recently born out, regarding Madagascar, moths, nature, Darwin and infrared lighting.
TaleSlinger on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech, linux
I learned a difficult lesson today. while using GParted to partition a hard drive, I attempted to change the label of a partition on my drive. A careful reading of the warning indicates that it will erase the drive not the partition.
Caveat operator.
TaleSlinger on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech, linux
I wanted to format a large USB hard drive as FAT32, so that I oculd easily move data between Linux and Windows.
TaleSlinger on Nov 03 2007 | Filed under: Entertainment
I recently needed to convert some VMs from single large disks to smaller, 2 GB files. The key was using the vmware-diskmanager.exe that came with VMWare Workstation and following the directions carefully.
I tried a couple of the GUIs that people have written for this, but I didn’t get them working. In the end, I used the command line, since I just had a few to do.
The example that comes with the commandline help was all I needed:
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vm