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VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a free virtual machine environment that runs on the major platforms. Competitors include Parallels, VirtualPC, and VMWare, all great products. The VirtualBox project was acquired by Sun a while back and it’s still free and better than ever. In Mac...

Wondering if you’re 32-bit?

I thought my Core 2 Duo machine was 64-bit. I’ll have to look at it a bit more. After looking around I found the version package which very easily tells you what version you’re running of various programs. Just enter version program-name or version ubuntu...

My Favorite Wallpaper

It took me a while to track it down- I love it. It’s just classic feeling. I remembered from some time ago and man is it hard to find a wallpaper you just remember the look of: edgy-wallpapers_0.2.orig.tar.gz

Slab Menu

I always want to use things the way they were intended, but it has always grated on me that there are not one, but two panels with controls and everything all over them. Now I understand the logical division of the default panels. The simple menus to the top left in...

Caps Lock

With thanks once again to Ubuntu Community Forums, I managed to get my Caps Lock key working. Not one of the things you’d think would be tricky, but… sudo apt-get –purge remove mouseemu Then reboot.

Linux Gaming and Compiz

Games and Compiz are not friends. It seems you basically have to disable your good looking environment just to play good looking games. Ironic. Anyway, thanks to Tombuntu, I was able to install Fusion Icon which is a system tray icon that lets you enable or disable...