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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 basically about

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 plenty of

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 classes for