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Moving from Virtualbox to QEMU
I used to use vagrant and VirtualBox back in the day. But circumstances changed and I needed to move to a less powerful machine for my development work.
Along came qemu and kvm to rescue me, and since I use linux (and have been since 2001) I welcomed them with open arms.
here is how you use qemu
Installation $ apt-get install qemu Setting up debian $ mkdir ~/vms $ cd ~/vms $ wget https://cloud.
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Making Psql More Comfortable
A student, on his ‘industrial training’, recently asked me how I manage to spend so much time on the console, and with psql in particular.
psql is the interactive terminal for the PostgreSQL (arguably the world’s most advanced open source relational database).
I explained to him, that it was because of the customization I had made to psql. I uploaded my .psqlrc to github dotfiles repository to act as an inspiration for others.
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The Kampala Heat (cocktail recipe)
The Kampala Heat - A cocktail recipe 1 shot of Smirnoff Vodka
1 shot of Dry Red Wine
1 shot of Sprite (Fizz)
1 shot of Undiluted Orange Juice
Served on the rocks
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