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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 [...]

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 [...]

Uninstalling VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Linux Guest OS

April 8, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Within the last few days, I updated my Linux Mint Debian Edition virtual machine installation to Update 4. Between not following the instructions so closely and problems with the update server, a re-installation preceded the update itself. When all was [...]

A new phone

A new phone

February 4, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

After a few years with a straightforward Nokia 1661 and a PAYG Blackberry 8520, I decided to go and upgrade from the former to an HTC Wildfire S. So far, the new phone has been good to me with only [...]

A few thoughts on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1

January 22, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

After an aborted installation in VirtualBox using the direct installation, I got a VM instance of Ubuntu 12.04 in place by installing from a loaded Live CD session. That proceeded without any trouble and downloaded the required updates too. First [...]

An in situ upgrade to Linux Mint 12

December 4, 2011 6 Responses Shortlink

Though it isn’t the recommended approach, I have ended up upgrading to Linux Mint 12 from Linux Mint 11 using an in situ route. Having attempted this before with a VirtualBox hosted installation, I am well aware of the possibility [...]