Start -> Run -> CMD
cd \Program Files\Terminal Services Client
mstsc -v:x.x.x.x /console

major: Really a marketing decision. Are you ready to call the version 1.0? Does the company consider this a major version for which customers might have to pay more, or is it an update of the current major version which may be free? Less of an R&D decision and more a product decision.

minor: Starts from 0 whenever major is incremented. +1 for every version that goes public.

release: Every time you hit a development milestone and release the product, even internally (e.g. to QA), increment this. This is especially important for communication between teams in the organization. Needless to say, never release the same ‘release’ twice (even internally). Reset to 0 upon minor++ or major++.

build: Can be a SVN/Git version, I find that works best.

For larger projects with many components Semantic Versioning makes sense, though it less end-user friendly.

Quite some time ago, I built a CentOS Xen DomU using lvm within an xvda partition. And the whole VM was hosted in yet another lvm partition. While lvm is easy to manage and physical backup and restore is straightforward, accessing the contents of the embedded partition without the VM running is tricky. Luckily, device mapping in Linux is very powerful and can be used recursively (not quite like Haskell or OCaml, but impressive none the less).

This recipe can be applied multiple times to dig deeper into your embedded file systems.

Add the device mappings (assuming the device created is /dev/xvda ):

kpartx -a /dev/VolGroupXX/LogVolxx

Kpartx is amazing as it will scan all your lvm volumes and create device mapper entries, which are required for the lvm tools to do their thing.

Scan for physical volumes:

pvscan

The above should tell you the physical volumes with LVM partitions (the PV column) along with the volume groups on it (the VG column). Activate the volume group:

vgchange -ay {VG name from previous step}

If you have additional embedded LVM, run vgscan to discover these, and vgchange -ay as required. You may need to repeat the kpartx and pvscan too.

When you eventually get to the volume required, mount it with :

mount /dev/{VG name}/{LV name} /mnt/xxx ;

The folks at Citrix have more detail here, especially if you’re running Xen.

To disable IPv6 in RHEL/CentOS 6.x:

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network
Change the following:

 NETWORKING_IPV6=yes to
 NETWORKING_IPV6=no

Edit /etc/modprobe.conf
If not present, add the following:

 alias net-pf-10 off
 alias ipv6 off

Stop the ipv6tables service

 service ip6tables stop

Disable the ipv6tables service

 chkconfig ip6tables off

After rebooting, IPv6 will be disabled.

As of version 1.3, Growl is only available through AppStore for $1.99, but the source is still available online. So if you happen to have XCode installed, the following instructions will get you running.

1) You need Mercurial to retrieve Growl source. To Install Mercurial: sudo easy_install pip && sudo pip install Mercurial

2) In a terminal window:

 cd /tmp
 hg clone https://code.google.com/p/growl/
 cd growl
 open Growl.xcodeproj

3) In XCode, disable code signing.

4) Back in terminal:

 xcodebuild -project Growl.xcodeproj -target Growl.app -configuration Release
 open build/Release

5) Copy Growl.app to your Applications folder.

More detailed, illustrated instructions available at: http://pragmactic-osxer.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-growl.html

mkvmerge -v -o movie.mkv movie.avi --sub-charset 0:UTF8 -s 0 -D -A movie.srt

A more general purpose script:

#!/bin/bash
INPUT=$(basename $1 .avi)
SRT=$(ls | grep $INPUT.srt)
SUB=$(ls | grep $INPUT.sub)
SSA=$(ls | grep $INPUT.ssa)
if [ "$SRT" != "" ]; then
#    mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.srt
    mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 --sub-charset 0:UTF8 -s 0 -D -A $INPUT.srt
#    mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.eng.srt --sub-charset 0:UTF8 -s 0 -D -A $INPUT.spa.srt
elif [ "$SUB" != "" ]; then
    mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.sub
elif [ "$SSA" != "" ]; then
    mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.ssa
else
    mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1
fi

Unfortunately, this still doesn’t help for PS3, which doesn’t yet understand mkv.

$ cat >> .ocamlinit
#use "topfind";;
#require "sdl";;
#require "sdlvideo";;

open Sdl
open Sdlvideo;;
open Str;;

.ocamlinit is sourced from the current directory, falling back to /home/user/.ocamlinit. you can explicitly override it via ocaml -init <filename>