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fixing the disabled snapshot button in vmware fusion
I recently created a new CentOS 5 vmware image. Unfortunately the “Take Snapshot” button was disabled while the system was running. After searching around I found this post.
What you need to do is open up your vmx file and comment out (disable) the following line:
scsi0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
Others have also reported finding the following line in [...]
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automate installing tripwire using expect
tripwire is a handy part of an intrusion detection system. It’s a nice piece of software but the installer is interactive which makes it a pain to install automatically (e.g. when using PoolParty/EC2). Below is a simple expect script I whipped up to solve the make install problem. Hopefully this will save someone two or [...]
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rough cut: erlang code coverage with rake