Mount Windows Shared Folder as VirtualBox Linux VirtualHost

Mount your VMs with vigor!

If you want to use a Linux virtual machine (VM) for use as a testing environment for your web projects yet also want to edit the files from the comfort of your Windows computer, there are many caveats that could slow you down. This is a short article with command examples to help you.

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The Internship Movie Plus Epic Movie

Saturday night, I went to see The Internship. The theater was packed, but for some reason, very few people were in there to see this movie. I am glad I chose to see it. It lived up to my expectations of being Wedding Crashers for nerds. It was a hilarious movie, and the plot was actually pretty believable most of the time.

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Resize LVM PV Partition in Debian/Ubuntu

This was a headache for no particular reason.

Okay, so you made or received a backup of an operating system for use in a virtual environment. The partitions list something like "ext2, extended, lvm pv" and the lvm pv partition is way too small. What you want to do is resize the partition, but chances are you tried that already and are now looking for answers as to why it didn't work or how to fix it.

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Digital Pirates Battling Digital Piracy

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