Been using version 9.04 of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackelope, for a few weeks now. I have it running on 2 of my 3 personal machines and I get pretty regular use out of it for my daily computing. The first machine I installed it on was my Asus 901 EeePC. I did a fresh install on [...]

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 finally broke down and bought an Asus EEE PC netbook several weeks ago.  I’ve been threatening to purchase one since they originally came out.  I carefully compared what was available and got what I felt were the best features for the price.  I settled on the 901 model.  It had all the features I [...]

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 [...]