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Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

November 1, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Though my main home PC runs Linux Mint, I do like to have the facility to use Windows software from time to time and virtualisation has allowed me to continue doing that. For a good while, it was a Windows [...]

Setting up MySQL on Sabayon Linux

September 27, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

For quite a while now, I have offline web servers for doing a spot of tweaking and tinkering away from the gaze of web users that visit what I have on there. Therefore, one of the tests that I apply [...]

Widely differing approaches

January 28, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

The computer on which I am writing these words is running Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment, a fork of GNOME Shell. This looks as if it is going to be the default face of GNOME 3 in the [...]

Battery life

October 2, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

In recent times, I have lugged my Toshiba Equium with me while working away from home; I needed a full screen laptop of my own for attending to various things after work hours so it needs to come with me. [...]

A useful little device

October 1, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

Last weekend, I ran into quite a lot of bother with my wired broadband service. Eventually, after a few phone calls to my provider, it was traced to my local telephone exchange and took another few days before it finally [...]

All Change?

September 19, 2011 1 Response Shortlink

Could 2011 be remembered as the year when the desktop computing interface got a major overhaul? One part of this, Windows 8, won’t be with us until next year but there has been enough happening so far this year that [...]

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