Mounting partition from VDI fixed-size image

Recently I was searching for VDI (Virtual Disk Image used by VirtualBox) fixed-size image resizer (expander exactly). I haven't found such a tool (creating another image and copying content between them needs more disk space), so I wrote one. Unfortunatelly it's not even ready to be published as alpha version. But this post is not about it.

Today I needed to mount partition from VDI image (without running virtual machine). With knowledge gained from above experience I was able to do it easily. Read more...

Software projects

Finally I added my software projects to wiki. Unfortunately you probably won't find anything interesting there...

Start page

I have made my simple start page, so it no longer redirect to the old site.

Troves

Yesterday I started new site with links to valuable (IMHO) texts. It's only blogger, because I don't have time for writing a specialized engine.

YouTube videos in higher quality

No, I'm not saying about videos that have watch in high quality link... All videos are accessible in higher quality. Read about it.

GRUB reinstallation and setting processor affinity

Sometimes there is a need to reinstall GRUB and if you do this really rarely, then you can forget the fastest and the most simple way or just google more complex solution.

Multi-core CPUs are common nowadays, so it's good to know how to set processor affinity for processes.

There are also other linux tips.

Recommendations

Today I finally updated my recommendations page by adding short descriptions to almost all items. I hope you'll find there something new and interesting.