First, a brief recap of Steve Yegge's " When Polymorphism Fails " in case it moves again. Let's skip to the part where he...

To give a guest only one network card with host-only networking, yet still let it access the Internet, we can let it connect to an HTTP prox...

Given that RAM doesn't seem to be that expensive anymore (there are plenty of choices for 2GB DDR3 sticks around $20 at NewEgg right now...

I was working on a post about VirtualBox’s networking capabilities and how none of the modes provided for what I wanted out-of-the-box.  But...

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What is the difference among pages, regions, nodes, blocks, and fields? There's one page that may contain multiple regions.  Regions a...

Most of the AWS command line tools accept their login credentials from a file named in the AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE environment variable and form...