It’s been a few months now since I’ve gone completely Linux on my computers. As you would expect you start figuring out the little quirks of a system from day to day use. I’ve been doing my best to make notes as things crop up and what the solution is. One of my more frequent [...]

I got some Doublemint gum in my Christmas stocking this year. It came in a nice little that I’ll eventually use to put junk that I refuse to throw away. Generally I’m not a big gum chewer. Can’t throw all the gum away though because that would just be wasteful. What do I do instead? [...]

Now that you have Windows XP virtualizing on Ubuntu using VirtualBox, it’s reasonable that you will at some point want to use a USB device under Windows. I personally would really like to be able to sync my iPod with iTunes. It takes a bit of tweaking to Ubuntu – Intrepid Ibex to get it [...]

Welcome back.  This next portion of the VirtualBox tutorial is going to go over setting up a virtual machine to install your desired operating system on.  At this point you should have already covered the easy installation steps of VirtualBox Part 1. Starting up VirtualBox should present the main screen.  <sarcasm> I’m sure this is [...]

I have been examining various virtual machine applications for projects I wanted to work on.  I was aware of Parallels and VMWare but they are commercial solutions.  Ideally since these were hobbyist projects I was looking for a free solution, preferably open-source.  VirtualBox was suggested to me and I instantly fell in love. I’m so [...]