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I've enrolled myself for the Level I CFA exam in December '08. Studying on and off, depending on the schedule and time availability. Off late I stumbled upon SenFinance an interesting site full of Accounting and Quantitative tutorials for CFA Level I. I downloaded them all and wanted to view them on my way to work (a 20 minute train travel is good to study). So I got my hands on SUPER® which is an amazing software to convert any one video or auto file to another format. Now I finally have the tutorials in mp4 format and can study on my way to work!

This is an old post I had written on google docs, before VMware Server was free for the general user. Thought could be still more relevant to the general developer for testing in Linux envoirment. VMPlayer I beleive is lighter than VMware Server. There are 2 stages of setting up the development & testing environment for yourself. The preferred work environment is Linux. If you already on Linux then you can safely skip Stage I, you can directly proceed to Stage II, also if you have Linux already installed, just cross check if you have the LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP) server installed.

Disk space is cheap, starting from a 1.2GB hard drive from my first computer to a "spare" 500GB external hard drive, cheap data storage has come a long way. I click a lot of photographs ever since I got my first digital camera, and I store a lot of these photos too (locally), now since 2006 I have over 201,608 photos and some videos. My camera photo number counter has reset twice!!