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While I certainly have been enjoying running Arch on usb on the Dell, my main machine is still the old MacBook running Ubuntu. I had some extra time today and thought "hey, I should install steam and grab FTL and Kerbal Space Program" but then promptly decided Id rather do upgrades?

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A while ago I created a virtual machine (VM) under VMware 5.1 with Ubuntu as the guest OS. I wasn't giving the task my full attention and I made a couple choices without thinking when setting this one up. The problem I ended up with is that I only allocated about 10GB to the VM which, while certai...

Installing Ubuntu on the MacBook recently, I knew there would be a bunch of OSX programs I would no longer be able to run but I was pretty confident that I'd be able to get some Windows programs going with wine. Having had good luck with Temple of Elemental Evil on the Elitebook last December,...

Last year when I got an HP EliteBook for work I thought my days with the old MacBook were numbered. The MacBook isn't that old, its a 2009 Core 2 Duo aluminum body 13" model, but the EliteBook's iCore 5 was is faster. The Mac screen is better, but not by very much. Both processors support V...

Ubuntu's Unity interface in 11.04 is nice, very minimalist - but I keep finding little things that have been removed which force me to stop and Google for awhile before I can get on with my work. The latest one to peeve me was that the little pencil icon which toggled showing the text location...