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htr3n / macos-ramdisk.md
Last active May 1, 2024 10:16
Creating RAM disk in macOS

Built-in

diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAM Disk' `hdiutil attach -nobrowse -nomount ram://XXXXX`

where XXXXX is the size of the RAM disk in terms of memory blocks.

Notes:

@darrenpmeyer
darrenpmeyer / open-vm-tools-vmware-ubuntu-sharing.md
Last active April 10, 2024 19:18
open-vm-tools and VMWare Shared Folders for Ubuntu guests

(NB: adapted from this Ask Ubuntu thread -- tested to work on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS through Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy).

Unlike using VMWare Tools to enable Linux guest capabilities, the open-vm-tools package doesn't auto-mount shared VMWare folders. This can be frustrating in various ways, but there's an easy fix.

TL;DR

Install open-vm-tools and run:

sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other
@evantoli
evantoli / GitConfigHttpProxy.md
Last active April 26, 2024 17:21
Configure Git to use a proxy

Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like: