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Installing VMware Player 4.04 on Linux Mint 13

July 15, 2012 2 Responses Shortlink

Curiosity about the Release Preview of Windows 8 saw me running into bother when trying to see what it’s like in a VirtualBox VM. While doing some investigations on the web, I saw VMware Player being suggested as an alternative. [...]

Changing from Nouveau to Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Linux Mint Debian Edition 64-bit

April 22, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

One way of doing this is to go to the Nvidia website and download the latest file from the relevant page on there. Then, the next stage is to restart your PC and choose rescue mode instead of the more [...]

A little more freedom

December 10, 2011 2 Responses Shortlink

A few weeks ago, I decided to address the fact that my Toshiba laptop have next to useless battery life. The arrival of an issue of PC Pro that included a review of lower cost laptops was another spur and [...]

A restoration of order

July 12, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

This weekend, I finally put my home computing displacement behind me. My laptop had become my main PC with a combination of external hard drives and an Octigen external hard drive enclosure keeping me motoring in laptop limbo. Having had no [...]

64-bit (Google) Gears

June 8, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Gears offers the potential to speed up WordPress’ administration screens so I tend to add it to Firefox as a matter of course. However, Google only offers a 32 bit version so you are either left to your own devices [...]

64-bit Firefox plugins?

May 26, 2009 1 Response Shortlink

My laptop has both Windows Vista and Ubuntu on there with WUBI being the facilitator of the peaceful coexistence. However, what I either forgot or never realised was that it was the 64-bit variant of Ubuntu 9.04 that has found [...]