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Cloning VirtualBox disk images

If you hope that a simple copy will make it.. it doesn’t. Apparently the unique disk indentifier (UUID) is embbeded in the image file. $ VBoxManage clonevdi sourceimage.vdi destimage.vdi

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Visual Diffs

For some time now i started to notice the amount of time i wasted in solving version conflicts. The GNU diff works great with small change sets, but having a visual diff tool helps a lot when you’re dealing with long files with lots of diffs. I used several visuall-diff-editors whit the several version-control software [...]

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