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Resizing VirtualBox Disks Does Not Work With Snapshots

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by Dirk Strauss - August 8, 2014November 14, 2018 715315

Resizing VirtualBox Disks - I wanted to resize the hard drive of my VM, and I figured that this would be an easy task. As it turns out, it is extremely easy. The only problem was that it wasn't working. Here is how I resolved that error. Please note, this is my

Moving VirtualBox VM’s To An External Drive

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by Dirk Strauss - August 6, 2014November 13, 2018 3390581

Moving Virtual Box VM's - The other day I created a VM in VirtualBox, and it created the VM in the default directory on my local drive. My local drive is not full, but having a virtual machine hogging an initial 23 Gb of disk space, didn't excite me too

Easily Generate Table Change Scripts In SQL Server Management Studio

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by Dirk Strauss - January 29, 2014December 10, 2018 36783

Something I found frustrating when designing databases, were the frequent changes made to tables. Managing the scripts can become quite tricky, especially if you are still in the design phase. This is made worse by code changes or change requests to existing data structures. Sometimes a person gets so caught

Script Table Data In SQL Server Management Studio

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by Dirk Strauss - January 27, 2014December 10, 2018 1924060

How Do I Script Table Data In SQL Server Script Table Data - I have used other tools to do this for ages. I can't believe that I never knew that it existed in SQL Server Management Studio. Well ok, in my defence it isn't quite the most 'In-your-face' setting. Nevertheless, it

SQL Server Management Studio – Changing Default Data Type In Table Designer

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by Dirk Strauss - January 24, 2014December 10, 2018 23562

If there is one thing that I always had a pet peeve with, was the table designer column data type default in SQL Server Management Studio. You have no option (that I am aware of) to change the default column data type when creating a new data table in table

Outlook Email Stuck In Outbox With Date Of None – Resolved

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by Dirk Strauss - January 15, 2014November 27, 2018 49214

Outlook Email Stuck - I came across a very strange problem. I sent an email and it seemed to get stuck in my Outbox. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2010 and I was having some connectivity problems. It seems that when I sent the email, my line dropped. Somehow this

Scumbag Scammers – My Conversation With The Devil In Disguise

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by Dirk Strauss - November 7, 2013November 2, 2016 82161

Scumbag Scammers - I have always maintained that the easiest way to hack someone, obtain access to their PC or to get someone's password is to simply ask them for it. There is a worrying trend in the world where more and more people's private information is being compromised by

Windows 8 Tips Series – Content Rollup

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by Dirk Strauss - July 30, 2013November 2, 2016 11130

Windows 8 Tips Series has been a regular post on this blog for the past couple of months. I think it is time to close the series and provide a content roll-up of all the posts. With Windows 8.1 around the corner, I will probably cover that from now on. I

Resolve Windows Live Mail Error When Using smtp4dev

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by Dirk Strauss - July 15, 2013November 2, 2016 123580

smtp4dev is an excellent testing tool to add to your tools library. Go ahead and download smtp4dev from CodePlex. It is a dummy SMTP server which is compatible with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010. smtp4dev Will sit in the system tray and listen for messages on the port you specify (usually port 25). The

Clone VirtualBox VM’s Easily To Provide a Fresh Dev Environment

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by Dirk Strauss - July 11, 2013November 14, 2018 011697

Clone VirtualBox VM's - Lately I have fallen in love again with VirtualBox. I have decided that using the same installation of SYSPRO on my local dev machine to do all customisations is inefficient. As time moves along and different customisations need to be done for different clients, my SYSPRO installation