1. Installing openSUSE (in VirtualBox) with a LAMP server
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I wanted to install openSUSE in VirtualBox, and set up a LAMP development environment in it.  The "how to" information I found is already available, but it's scattered in different places (blogs, ...

2. What I've learned
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...  Your work is automatically sandboxed to the virtual machine you're working in You can experiment all you want If you use VirtualBox you can take snapshots and easily ...

3. VirtualBox script: automatic snapshot
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Update The original code (below) fails if the current hour is less than 2 digits long, i.e., earlier than 10 AM.  This is the fix: cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox set current_hour=%time:~0,2% ...

4. My PHP and Rails development environments
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... between the three environments for Rails development.   I run VirtualBox on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit host installation.  The following are my VirtualBox virtual machines that I use for ...

5. Adventures in Linux and VirtualBox
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Over the last two weeks I've been playing with VirtualBox and various distributions of Linux.  First of all, VirtualBox is pretty amazing, but there are a couple of things one should know when starting ...