Problem 1, VirtualBox can’t resize this kind of Linux volume, so, on the Mac: Create a new HD (for me, ~10G) VBoxManage createhd –filename Ubuntu.vdi –size 10000 Copy contents VBoxManage clonehd CartoDB.vdi Ubuntu.vdi –existing Then, Download GParted ISO, latest version so that you can resize LVM volumes Add as CD volume to the machine and
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Linphone Android + Netbeans + OS X = problems
Linphone is an open-source VoIP API. They have a git project for Android, and I wanted to develop on OS X (Netbeans). Not a great setup for success, but of course I didn’t know that until I’d started. I hadn’t had much trouble developing for Android on the mac before. So, some tips to spare
read moreHibernate a Mac OS X server without losing internet/windows file sharing
Internet Sharing and SMB stop a mac going to sleep. If you want to find out what’s stopping your mac going to sleep, you can run pmset -g assertions. Furthermore, the mac does not allow hibernation. I’m a bit over-energy-conscious, so here is my solution to having an energy-efficient home server. Tell power management to
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After updating to OSX 10.8.2 (Server), internet sharing stopped working. After a lot of fighting, that included setting up manually (turned out not to be viable because I couldn’t figure out how to automatically launch an ad-hoc network at startup), I undid everything I tried except for this one tip: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4418 Perhaps if I’d done
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