windows

I recently got a Macbook Pro. But I can no longer use VMWare on Mac to run Linux because VMWare charges for its Fusion player on Mac. Fortunately, I can use VirtualBox which is free for all platforms.

Here are the steps to get Ubuntu 8(Guest) up and running in VirtualBox on Windows(Host):

1. Download the ISO version of Ubuntu 8
2. Open VirtualBox. Create a new image. I gave it a 16GB virtual disk.
3. Attach the Ubuntu ISO image as cd-rom
4. make sure the boot sequence starts with cd-rom
5. start the virtual machine. It should go into Ubuntu's installation screen.

Tags: windows ubuntu vmware virtualbox

Two days ago, I rebooted my windows 2000 laptop. It showed me a blank screen just right after I saw the windows booting message. There’s a flash of a screen showing some error messages. But it went off t oo quickly, and I couldn’t really see them.

I used a Knoppix live CD to boot up my laptop and did “fsck”(it’s like scandisk in windows) on the drive. But it doesn’t help. Then booting the laptop with Knoppix, I mounted the windows partition as writable. I edited “c:\boot.ini” to add “/fastdetect /bootlog /sos /safeboot /debug” to the end of the line “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" “

Tags: windows

You can have some fun with Microsoft's live.com which just went live.

Click here to see a fun message. In case you don't see anything fun because they fix it already, here's
the screen capture

The trick is found at digg.com.

I am amused by the use of this kind of trick to display an error message at live.com, which is supposed to provide web 2.0 services to combat Google. Isn't that Microsoft has been emphasizing on security for a long...long time? It seems Windows Live just made phishers' life easier.

Tags: windows live security