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What changed since 2012? - Things are simpler now! (in 2018)

What changed since 2012? - Things are simpler now! (in 2018)

Yesterday, I realized, that it's been almost 2 long years since my last post. A lot has happened in that time and while migrating this blog to ghost, I reflected on some older posts of mine and noticed how things got easier. Since most of my posts are

Vagrant on Windows with gulp-watch and similar file watching tools

Vagrant on Windows with gulp-watch and similar file watching tools

As you might have guessed from my previous posts I love Vagrant and Gulp. I think those tools are awesome. They make my life much easier by either packing everything into a VM which I can destroy and recreate whenever things go south (Vagrant), or automating every little bit I

The Difference in (Un)Zip-Performance

The Difference in (Un)Zip-Performance

I got a nice present for Christmas, last year - a Windows 8 Tablet/Notebook convertible. With the extra battery in the keyboard and an Intel-Atom SoC the power lasts easily for 12h or continues use. Of course, since the only component which can drain the battery is the 10&

How to Forward HTTP Requests in Windows 8 to a Hyper-V VM

How to Forward HTTP Requests in Windows 8 to a Hyper-V VM

Complicated title - that's pretty much, what I was looking for on Google, yet with only little success. At first, I found some instructions for Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012. After modifying the search query, some instructions for exporting a network connection in VMWare showed up. There were

Hyper-V error "IDE/ATAPI Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment..."

Hyper-V error "IDE/ATAPI Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment..."

I have Microsoft Hyper-V running on my laptop (Windows 8). After the installation and configuration was a little bit of a pain (getting an Internet connection wasn't that easy for me) it works very well. Unfortunately I did another major mistake. I wanted to use my VM for