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How To Resize/Grow VMware Linux Disks and Partitions


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 10th, 2007 in Linux

Updated: January 18th, 2009

Update 01/16/2008: This method does not work for LVM partitions, as discovered in the comments.

In this article, I will show how to resize a VMware disk if you didn't make it large enough when it was created. Furthermore, I will show how to resize partitions following the disk augmentation using OpenSUSE 10.2 as an example. You will even be able to resize the Linux root partition (/) that is mounted and is normally unmountable.

The story: this is simple – you made a VMware disk without thinking ahead and now it ran out of space. Here you have a few options, the most notable ones being create another disk and mount it or grow the existing disk and …

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Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never Heard Of


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 4th, 2007 in Linux

Updated: November 9th, 2007

How many times did I want to watch a directory waiting for a file to appear in it? Constant ls, for example, quickly got boring. A quick Perl script that would reload ls every 5 seconds… yeah it works but it takes a while to type up, and often enough I'm too lazy for that. And then I found 'watch' – a utility that comes with most *nix distros. Look at this beauty [man watch]:

NAME
watch – execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

SYNOPSIS
watch [-dhvt] [-n ] [–differences[=cumulative]] [–help]
[–interval=] [–no-title] [–version]

DESCRIPTION
watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screen
full).
This allows you to watch the program output change over time.
By default, …

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Updated: August 25th, 2007

Here are some pictures and videos from the magnificent Tiesto's Elements Of Life concert that rocked San Francisco yesterday, July 28, 2007.

Feel free to follow this linky for more pictures.

Videos by shotokun16, myself, and others from the party:

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Limo + San Francisco = ?


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 25th, 2007 in Humor

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Bringing Civilization To Its Knees


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 24th, 2007 in Humor

The geek way.

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The Simpsons Movie A Hit? IMDB Users Think So.


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 23rd, 2007 in Entertainment

Updated: July 28th, 2007

The Simpsons Movie hasn't even come out yet but already received a whopping 9.3/10 rating on imdb with 1652 votes. Is it really that good? I guess I'll definitely be finding out this weekend.

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Edit: Apparently it's good. Really good. There are raving reviews all over the place. Currently 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, which can be considered a huge success. Count me in….

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The Most Accurate Apple iPhone Review To Date From Maddox


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 17th, 2007 in Humor, Technology

The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.

By Maddox

No, I'm not going to get an iPhone, quit emailing me about it. I'm not getting one because I already have a phone that's better: it's called the Nokia E70, it's the pinnacle of human achievement, and I love it more than my family:

You've probably never heard of the E70 because Nokia's marketing team is busy finding every last dick in the universe to suck, so I'm going to do their job for them and tell you about this product. And no, I'm not being paid to do this. I'm just tired of the iPhone fanboys shooting huge sticky wads and high-fiving each other (literally)

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How To Download And Install Windows Media Player 11 Bypassing WGA


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 9th, 2007 in Technology

Let's say you want to upgrade to Windows Media Player 11 or just accidentally upgraded and are now presented with the WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) prompt to verify how legit that Windows copy of yours is. Hypothetically speaking, something is going wrong and Windows Genuine Advantage isn't able to verify the validity of the Windows license but you still want to use WMP 11. Here is the easiest way to do this (wtf exactly were the MS programmers thinking?!):

Step 1. Install WMP11. The Windows Genuine Advantage check is built into the program and will show itself once installation is complete. You will possibly need to reboot.

Step 2. Quit the Windows Genuine Advantage prompt.

Step 3. Go to …

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The Repositories For apt-get In SUSE 10.2


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 9th, 2007 in Linux

Updated: November 9th, 2007

So today I was looking for a proper sources.list file that would work for apt-get in SUSE 10.2 since the one in yast and smart repositories comes with a broken list. And by broken I mean completely f***ed.

apt-get update
Err ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/10.2-i386 release
Could not resolve 'mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de'
Get:1 ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de SuSE/10.2-i386 release
Ign ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de SuSE/10.2-i386 release
Err ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/10.2-i386/base pkglist
Could not resolve 'mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de'
Err ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/10.2-i386/base release
Could not resolve 'mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de'
Err ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/10.2-i386/update pkglist
Could not resolve 'mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de'
Get:1 ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de SuSE/10.2-i386/base pkglist
Err ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/10.2-i386/update release
Could not resolve 'mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de'
Err ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de SuSE/10.2-i386/base pkglist
Unable to fetch file, 

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Reason Behind Today's Downtime


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 3rd, 2007 in Beer Planet, Humor

Today the server went offline while I was at work for no apparent reason. Further investigation uncovered the perpetrator. Here he is, eating the power cord.

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Google Maps New Feature: Visual Route Dragging


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 29th, 2007 in Awesomeness, Technology

Click this sample map and then try dragging the blue path around to create via points. You can also do the same to the start and end points. Now I feel that the Google maps are truly 21st century. Live traffic (maybe live traffic cams soon?), street view, multiple destination, dragging and zooming with the mouse… can this thing get any better?

This announcement is also currently one of the top diggs

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The day is finally here. Blizzard just officially announced Starcraft 2 at an official Korean event! As someone put it on digg, if you didn't know that you can simultaneously cream and shit your pants, you will now. Here are the first videos that surfaced on the web.

Cinematic trailer:

The actual gameplay demo narrated by Blizzard. IMO, this is the best and the most well put together demo I've ever seen:

And some more gameplay videos:

A TON more trailers here: GameTrailers SC 2 Page

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Coolest Bedroom TV Stand Ever?


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on May 6th, 2007 in Awesomeness

Updated: May 9th, 2007

I want one. Not the rest of the bedroom though…

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Beer Car Broken Into. Again. 2nd Time In 2 Weeks.


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 16th, 2007 in Personal

Thanks for another broken window, asshole. What are the odds of having 2 break-ins in 2 weeks? Same window. Damage done: $165. Stuff stolen: $15. FU.         …

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Funniest DUI Video I've Seen


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 12th, 2007 in Humor

Warning: heavy profanity but what did you expect?

Ruslan, you will love this.

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