Three Wise Men

While preparing my new workstation I stumbled upon a problem on how to boot VirtualBox machine from a USB fash drive. Pretty soon I discovered that VirtualBox has no support for booting from USB devices. Something with their BIOS not supporting it and that implementing this wouldn’t bring a lot to the whole package.

Read on if you want to know more.

Not so long ago BigWhale wrote about Windows 7 RTM. Sure Windows 7 have some installation quirks, but which operating system does not have one or two of those? Some operating systems can live without the constant need for GUI updates. But not Windows. Their micro GUI developers are working hard. So hard that they have a new GUI concept ready even before Windows 7 accumulated some dust on the shelves. Now that is why I call ahead of time market.. – development.

If you want to see Microsoft dreaming machine in action read on and take a look at a possible future of Windows 8.

It was time to finally install Windows 7. Released To Manufacturing version. I must admit, I was quite skeptical about this because it seems that I have been cursed in my youth and Microsoft products simply fail with me. No, seriously, I have had so many issues with Windows that even Chuck Norris can’t count all of them, and he counted to infinity, twice. I do hope that you are not affected by the same curse.

So why Windows 7 if nothing works for me like it should? Windows 7 was, and still is praised by a lot of fans. It is even praised by some people that are not, you know, typical fan-boys. I wanted to see what this praise was all about and what is so great on Windows 7. I already had Release Candidate 1 downloaded but I decided to obtain Ready To Manufacture version, they said that it is the shit.

I was postponing this for quite some time. The main reason is that I have a hacked-together-don’t-do-this-at-home version of Ubuntu 8.10 with a lot of things that were compiled from sources and installed or installed from got-knows-where-I-got-them .deb packages. So this is risky business for me. I want to upgrade, but I don’t want to render my system inoperable. I wanted to do a clean install from scratch but I ran out of blank CD/DVD’s. Seriously, I did.

I will run my upgrade now and I’ll be updating this post as I go. Addind screen shots and other stuff that might be interesting.

So, excuse my typos and grammatical failures. I’ll be doing the cleanup later, when I’m finished.

Bite Me!

Trolling and bashing on the internet forums can be fun, but the real fun starts when you have arguments that back you up. Imagine one linux zealot like me engaging in pissing contests with Apple fanboys, Mac users, OS X enthusiasts. The really bad way of losing an argument is due to: “How can you know, you never used it”.

What I did with Vista, I had to do with OS X too. I’ve gone and install OS X on my PC, PC that was not sold by Apple and shouldn’t run OS X anyway. Do you want to know how I did it? My experiences, the nitpicking, the problems and the joys of using OS X? Read on!