para – virtualize to install from iso

http://www.xenlens.com/boot-a-guest-vm-from-cd-or-dvd-in-xenserver/ copied for posterity In order to boot from cd or dvd you need to change the guest virtualization type from HVM (fully virtualized) to PV (paravirtualized). xe vm-param-set HVM-boot-policy=”BIOS order” uuid=[uuid of your vm] After you have booted from dvd, change back to fully virtualized mode: xe vm-param-set HVM-boot-policy=”” Read more

motorola Surfboard 6141 making noise

I just want to say despite many nay-sayers posting responses to this on other threads there is something in my SB 6141 that vibrates with uploads. (correlated by noise during speed test). These two links are have the identical report and then other people trying to argue that it’s not Read more

animated gif from imagemagick

put the list of files into a file ls -1 foo*.jpg > /var/tmp/jpglist rename randomly named files in numerical order cat /var/tmp/jpglist|perl -e’$i=1;while ($name=) { chomp $name;$new=”week” . $i . “.jpg”;system (“cp $name $new”);;$i++};’ resize all 13 files named week[number].jpg, add the Week[number].jpg to the lower right hand corner of Read more