Seller’s Permit

I had a potential client ask me for a quote on toner cartridges.  But, I wasn’t ready.  I did not think I wanted to deal with the hassle of reselling (sales tax, inventory, returns, shipping, and etc.).  I just wanted to sell my services.  I also thought it was just...

T-Mobile’s Unlimited Plan

In my line of work there is often a need to transfer high amounts of data from a mobile environment.  However, most “unlimited” mobile plans are far from unlimited and have bandwidth caps once you hit a set limit.  For example, a plan I recently had gave me 6 GB of...

See your VirtualBox guests remotely

Background: Do you have virtual guests running from home like I do?  Do you want to be able to see the screen and use the virtual guest remotely?  Read on!  Using RDP over ssh we can connect to VirtualBox‘s built in RDP client.  I’m assuming you have a virtual guest...

Which IP Address is listening for port 22?

Here’s some tricks to use in a BASH script.  I have some clients who have their system running DHCP, and so occasionally the IP address changes.  I wrote this script in order to detect which IP addresses on the local subnet are listening to port 22.  You can easily...

New Version of VirtualBox Released, 5.0.16

New version of VirtualBox released today… 5.0.16.  Here is a link to the changelog.  Some interesting things I saw: Includes a new experimental PC speaker passthrough option for Linux hosts. Increases the number of virtual Serial ports from 2 to 4 per guest. Some...