Puh, that’s a long title. I’m working on Mac OS X and use Virtualbox to run Windows XP as a guest operating system. Virtualbox runs exceptionally well and it’s even free. But the keyboard mapping is problematic since Windows XP assumes a standard PC keyboard. The layout of the Apple keyboards is different, so if [...]
I recently installed Beryl on my Kubuntu Feisty Fawn distribution and I run into two problems: 1) The window decorations were missing – here you need to add the line Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “true” to Section “Screen”. 2) My windows were all black and this is a bug in the NVidia driver which doesn’t seem to [...]
By accident I found a nice website which offers a program which allows access to ext2 or ext3 partitions in Windows: Ext2 Installable File System for Windows (which also is capable of reading ext3 file systems). This project provides a nice installer package, which installs an ext2 device driver in Windows – and it also [...]
Assume you have a lot of documents and data. Further you use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Work and Thunderbird instead of Outlook. And you use an IMAP Email Account instead of a POP3 one. Since you have so much documents you decide to use one of these fancy Desktop Searches to find things you need [...]
If you enter an audio CD or DVD into the CD/DVD drive of your Windows computer, you might install in that moment a root-kit of a copy control program, which prevents you to copy the audio content, or even worse, makes your system unstable and unsecure. There are two possibilities to prevent Windows from autoplaying [...]
