3 week project – part 3

Well shortly after my last post I realised that there may infact be a pre-compiled binary for VirtualBox on the sun site… there is… and it works just fine! That’s that one in the bag…
Last night I updated my whole system to Slackware-current, which I’ve not tried before. It was a very smooth [...]

3 week project – part 2

I spent some of yesterday tweaking, setting up a nice desktop using Fluxbox, choosing a file manager etc., but my major task was to get virtual machines on the go and this proved to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. It turns out that at the moment there’s a bug that [...]

A quick observation…

I’m very very sorry to say that I just edited a picture in Micrsoft Paint on my virtual machine (running Win 2K) because it was quicker than loading and using the GIMP.

Virtually perfect…

I’ve been playing a lot with virtual machines lately. Its something I’ve been curious about for a while but due to limited power on my older computers I couldn’t play with it properly. Now that I’ve got my new laptop I can, and works pretty nicely. I opted to use VirtualBox to run the [...]