Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Tutorial: Boot Ubuntu 9.10 Partition using Virtualbox inside Windows

So Ubuntu 9.10 got released several weeks ago and people have been asking about how to get my old tutorial working for 9.10.
The problem is that Ubuntu 9.10 uses the new grub 2 boot loader which changes LOTS of things. In this tutorial I will be showing you how to get Ubuntu 9.10 (or any [...]

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Tutorial: Boot existing Ubuntu Partition using Virtualbox inside Windows (deprecated)

Edit 22/11/09
Ubuntu 9.10 uses the new grub 2 as its boot-loader thus this article would not work for 9.10. I am currently in the progress of getting 9.10 to work under Virtualbox.
This tutorial would no longer be supported. Any comments regarding support will be ignored.
If you want to get 9.10 working please READ THIS ARTICLE
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Ubuntu 8.10 to Windows 7 Beta to Ubuntu 9.04 to Windows 7 RC

Originally my hard-drive crashed. So I decided to install Windows 7 beta, just to give it a spin. I loved it. Never have I ever gotten used to an operating system so quickly before. Everything just worked.
I promised I would install Ubuntu 9.04 beta when it gets released but it just had too many known [...]

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Oh lord what do I do?

I really like Windows 7. Am I fanboy? I hardly think so. I mean…I’ve had Ubuntu installed as my primary OS for 2.5 years only to remove it after my harddrive crashed and decided to give windows 7 a go. You may even hear me talking about wanting to be able to afford a mac. [...]

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Tutorial: Hosting/Playing Warcraft 3 Online in Ubuntu…Perfectly

I’ve read too many tutorials on how to setup Warcraft 3 on linux. However, the tutorial usually just ends there. Sure, you have a working version of Warcraft but when it comes to playing online it’s a different matter. Current versions of Wine do not have a working implementation of AcceptEx, this causes in game [...]

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More efficient procrastination

I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 beta recently. Here’s what I’ve noticed:
The good:

Network Manager has been significantly improved…although…the improvements do not affect me and I’m quite comfortable using the old version
More applications are being supported by Ubuntu
VLC 0.9.2 was included despite the feature freeze
Better driver support, my iphone is now successfully detected
Better xorg support, [...]

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Tutorial: xorg Metamodes – Running Fullscreen Games on 1 monitor in a dual display

A problem I’ve encountered since setting up dual display using Nvidia Twinview inside linux is that when playing full screen games I run into the problem where:
a) The game tries to run across the two displays but cuts off in the middle, so you only get the game on one monitor whilst your other monitor [...]

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Tutorial: Hamachi (with GUI) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Hamachi is a freeware application that initiates a virtual private network (VPN) between peers. This is extremely useful for initiating applications such as games over the Local Area Network (LAN).
For more information click here
This Tutorial is for setting up Hamachi with a gui based interface (optional) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

Download Hamachi
Extract it somewhere
Open up [...]

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