You can use a real, physical drive as a bootable hard disk in Sun Oracle VirtualBox using an undocumented feature, and it even works on Mac hosts!
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I'm passionate about Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Commander Keen and have started using Fedora as a netbook OS. I'm a Perl guy but am learning Python (and Java at university). I have a long standing restraining order against Windows and Flash.
Friday 12th March 2010
As a FreeBSD guy (and even on my Linux boxes) I’ve been using tcsh as my shell for years, but I never noticed this easter egg before. If you have your prompt defined to show the time with %T, at the top of each hour (as my American friends say it) it replaces the time with the word "DING!", how cute!
Chan-andler Bing Ding! Ring a Ding Ding, it’s a new hour! Is it sad that something like this made my day?
Monday 08th March 2010
Thursday 04th March 2010
I tried to extract a ZIP file I was send this afternoon and got the following error with unzip…
Monday 01st March 2010
I’ve got a huge backlog of unfinished blog posts (at least 300 at last count) so I’ve decided to create an entirely new one based on what this website told me to do.
8 things you probably didn’t know about Microsoft
Get it? CC cuddling cheese-kun? Warm and fuzzy? C? Get it? When I first started messing around with GNU ncurses I was under the impression it was a simple framework to create interactive, windowed console applications…
Saturday 27th February 2010
@HawkGeminus has just put the finishing touches on the main page for GrowUpAustralia.com.
Tuesday 16th February 2010
Got an email from Microsoft this afternoon. Yes I am aware the release candidate for Windows 7 wasn’t the final version, and yes I’m aware it wasn’t supposed to be used after a cut off date, but this is ridiculous.
Having dabbled in a ton of different languages lately, I felt the overwhelming urge this week just to get back to some good ol’ C, and what better and more productive way to do so that to mess around with ncurses!
Sunday 14th February 2010
Hot off the heels (relatively speaking) of their ribbon interface-clad Office 2007 Microsoft’s Mac division has announced their next version of Office for Mac that will also include the ribbon interface. Problem is, both Microsoft and Apple already solved the problem of feature accessibility years ago with the tall toolbox and the ribbon is a giant step backwards, especially now with widescreens so prevalent.
