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VirtualBox commands

Clone a virtual disk image: 1 $ VBoxManage clonehd original-disk.vdi copy.vdi Resize a virtual disk image to 20 Gb: 1 $ VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi --resize 20000 Convert a VirtualBox image to a raw image: 1 $ VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW disk.vdi disk.raw Convert a raw image to a …
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Increase OpenERP 6.0 web-client session timeout

Another week working with OpenERP means another trick learned to answer some intricate customer’s needs. Today I was asked to keep users logged-in on OpenERP’s 6.0 web client. The latter being powered by CherryPy, it was a matter of adding the following configuration directive in the web …
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How-to add a warning banner to OpenERP’s web client

When working with multiple OpenERP instances in different stages, you can be sure your customer will one day mix up your pre-production and production instance, which can have catastrophic effects. A quick and dirty hack to prevent such events is to add a hard-coded warning message to all content produced …
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Check Point’s SNX client on Ubuntu 11.04

Last month I had no other alternative but to reach a server through a Check Point’s VPN. Fortunately the editor provides a Linux client to access its proprietary stack. The version I found to work on my Ubuntu 11.04 is the SSL Network Extender (SNX) R71 package that …
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