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I have two virtualmachines that I need to start automatically, preferably without a window taking up space in my taskbar, when my computer starts up.  One runs FreePBX, the other is a web host for my development sites.  Virtualbox takes care of the headless aspect with vboxheadless.exe, but how do you get that to start automatically on computer boot?

I've taken the plunge and pieced together my new rig for business/gaming:

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D
Motherboard: EVGA Z68 SLI
Processor:  Intel Core i7 2600k
Ram: 16GB Corsair Vengeance (4 x 4 GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Power Supply: Corsair Professional 650AX
Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB
Monitor: Dual Asus VS247H-P

I eventually plan on either getting another 560 for SLI, or dropping it to a PHYSX card and getting two better cards for SLI.  Also want to raid my system storage across 2 SSD's, and watercool as well.

Pics to come soon.

After migrating to github and cleaning up my local dev environment, I wanted to automate creation of new projects as much as possible. https://gist.github.com/1565820 is a bash function I added (actually, it's two) to help me automate some of the process.

I've decided to migrate my scripts and projects over to github to allow me to work on them better from multiple machines and to share what I write, even if nobody else uses it. You can find my repos at https://github.com/Lateral-October.

For a while now, I've been trying to get my rooted phone running Cyanogenmod 7.1 to connect to my corporate wifi, so I didn't have to use data at work. For windows machines, we had to import certificates, the whole 9 yards. However, for the life of me I couldn't get my phone to connect. I finally found the set of settings that worked, and it actually involves not using the certificates at all.

So, hop in to an ADB Shell session on your phone, and edit the /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file, adding the following:

Last night, Best Buy posted a HUGE sale on the HTC Flyer tablet (from $299 to $99).  I've been holding out on getting a tablet due to price points, but this is one I couldn't skip on.  So I took a ride down to my local Best Buy when they opened at 10 AM, ready to buy one.

Except the sale was refused.

Apparently, the price point was an error from Corporate, and the stores were forbidden to sell it for that price (even though they rang up as $99.99 AT THE REGISTER.)

A few weeks ago, I posted a review on Cloudflare.  Since then, they've outdone themselves yet again, by offering IPV6 resolution for all cloudflare-enabled sites.

When I purchased my HTC Inspire 4g, I bought the Otterbox Commuter case with it.  About a month later, I noticed the shell of the Otterbox had cracked - and I had no idea how.

After posting about Cloudflare, I realized that Feedburner wasn't updating with the new post, even after pinging and re-syncing. Watching log files as I was testing the validator, I realized Varnish was serving a cached version of rss.xml. Inserting the following code in /etc/varnish/default.vcl resolved the issue:

// Skip the Varnish cache for rss feed
if (req.url ~ "rss\.xml") {
    return (pass);
}

Hope it helps!

As I noted in my last post I recently switched from from a Varnish/Apache/Wordpress configuration to a Varnish/Nginx/Drupal. Before that I was also using Cloudflare to service as a CDN/additional layer of cache. I turned off Cloudflare while I was working on the new setup, making sure everything was working before turning it back on. And the results were pretty drastic: