Good and Useful Websites

The following websites have been handpicked by the adminstrator of ycsoftware. If you have any suggestions please feel free to submit a comment. Note that we will revisit the suggested sites and make sure that they conform to the goal ycsoftware.net.

Here are the rules:

  1. No splash page No Intrusive ads like those videos ads i have seen lately.
  2. Total ads greater than content pages Websites who put a million google ads on one page.
  3. No indecent materials.
  4. Information spread through a zillion pages

Also if a website has more than eight ads per page we will not include it here no matter how good the information in this website might be.

1.  http://connectionstrings.com/

Free and Useful Software

The “free” term has been abused over the year, but this page has every thing that is FULLY FREE.

Should you find something that is not free? Please do not hesitate to drop me a line.

1.  CCLEANER. I do not advertise too many software unless it is a good one. Ccleaner is not a bad software  (until today 07/15/2009). If for any reason, it becomes corrupted with corporate greed  and excessive ads please make sure that you comment on it.

2. Color Cop. Web Designers this is a must have tool

3. Disk Cloning This software will allow one to make an image copy (clone) and existing hard drive.

4.  RSS Bandit.  Its Microsoft office GUI makes it very intuitive.

5.  Bootloader vista windows7 (EasyBCD)

Mount Windows Shares on LINUX

Very often, i get to access a windows shared  from a unix box and also very often i forget how to do it. This article should resolve this issue.

1. First make sure you have sure samba and related software are installed.  You can do that with a simple Yum on redhat based distribution:

yum install samba-client
 

2.  Make sure that all the services are running

service smb status

service smb start

 

3.  Create a directory with mkdir

mkdir /mnt/music

 

4.  Then mount it

mount -t cifs  //IP/Folder  -o username=ycsoftware, password=ycsoftware  /mnt/mymusic
 

Enable Code Completion Eclipse PDT

Eclise pdt should provide code completion right out of the box, but if  for some reason this feature is not activated for you follow the direction below to re-enable it.

1 Click on windows from the menu bar

2 Click on preferences

3 click on Auto activate delay .

 

Difference Between OVF and OVA

OVF (open virtualization format) –> is a collection of  vm files (*.vmdks, *.ovf, *.mf, *.vhd).  The OVF file  itself is just an xml file that has information about the vmdks files in the directory. When I export my VM as an OVF,  a directory is created that has an ovf file and vmdks … Take a look at my OVF directory below:

OVA (open virtualization Appliance) –> is just one single file (one single file), which could be considered as a zip of all the files that belong to the ovf directory. So if you want to share you VM on the internet you would create a single OVA file (just like a zip file). To consume the file, you have to convert it first to OVF ( just like you  unzip a file before you use it).

References:

Distributed Management Task Force
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf

OFV Format
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-open-virtualization-format-toolkit/

Open Virtualization Format Tool
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf