About Alex Mufatti

Telecom engineer, independent Information Technology and Services professional; specialized in Automation and Enterprise Web x.0 oriented architectures.

Arcumeggia #b

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Alex Mufatti

Arcumeggia #b

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VMware and NTFS storage for vmdk

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Alex Mufatti

I face the problem of having vmware disks files (vmdk) on ntfs partition (for sharing them between windows and linux installations).

When I run vmware with this configuration in linux I get an hight CPU usage by ntfs.mount process. Many blogs says that adding mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE to virtual machine configuration file will fix this issue.

This probably worked only with older vmware versions.

Then I found this.

vmware config

It says to change the location for snapshot and suspend files to a non ntfs partition. This just works!!

Vararo #b

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Sublime Text

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Alex Mufatti

I’ve created a new category on this blog: My Choices. Here I’ll talk about software, tech.. anything I use and I think It’s worth a try. I don’t want to give a full description or review but just few tips, pros and cons.

Let’s start with a text editor/IDE.

Sublime Text 2

I’m always looking for a good text editor that can help me working on simple text files but also on small projects (typically javascript or python). I loved vim (ok, vim is a religion, non an editor and I continue using it but when I want something of user-friendly it’s not really a good choice.

I start using PSPad, then I switch to Notepad++, then to UltraEdit. Each of these has many features and can be considered a great editor but I think this choice (the editor is one of my most used software) is also a matter of taste.

What I want is:

a light but good looking user interface;
cross platform (I switch frequently from windows to linux and maybe in future Mac OS);
programmability (not too complicated, just scripting of executing bat/sh);
column selection;
colour highlighting and formatting for source code;
single file/projects management;

After trying for some time Sublime Text 2, I can say it satisfy all these needs. It is one of the fastest editors I’ve tried out, with a light and interference free UI, it’s cross-platform and has a great community of developers that creates plug-ins and themes for any needs.

It’s definitely my choice!