Mac OSX in VirtualBox (Works in Windows and Linux)
Ever wanted to give Mac OS X a try without buying a Mac? You can run it in VirtualBox under both Windows and Linux. The initallation is not that difficult, but there’s one thing you should know: to be able to run Mac OSX in Virtualbox, your CPU needs hardware virtualization support. You’ll also need some pretty good hardware as Mac OSX requires around 20GB of disk space and 1 GB of RAM (on top of what your system needs to run).
More info: Run Mac OSX In Virtualbox Under Linux (Ubuntu) And Windows
VirtualBox is an application that you can use to try various operating systems in a virtual environment and thus without affecting your current OS. All you need is an ISO for the OS you want to try out (be it Mac OSX, Ubuntu or other Linux distributions or Windows). If you’ve never tried it before, I strongly recommend you give it a go.
And speaking of VirtualBox, why not give Ubuntu a try too? It looks really good and it’s free/open source too!
3 ani
Cred ca n-am mai scris despre mine de vreo 3 ani. Sau poate 2. Imi trebuie vreo 3 bloguri (nu posturi) ca sa scriu tot ce s-a intamplat, dar o sa fiu scurt si o sa rezum totul – adica ultimele cateva saptamani in cateva fraze:
- Mi-am dat demisia de la Gameloft. Momentan cica sunt angajat undeva si lucrez de acasa, si mai e si blogul… tot de acasa. Cam plictisitor. Irina lucreaza si ea de acasa asa ca trebuia sa facem ceva – vezi punctele de mai jos.
- Facuram un mic tur al Europei (nu vorbesc olteneste dar am zis ca ‘what the hell’): Ungaria, Slovacia, Germania, Olanda, Belgia, Franta, Luxembourg, Austria – vreo 2 parcuri de distractii, o plimbare cu balonul in Bruges in care i-am dat INELUL Irinei si n-am fumat in Amsterdam. Din pacate ne-am intors acasa, dar exista sperante 
. Link-uri la poze in postul anterior.
- Abia intors acasa, am fost obligat sa ma duc la Gamescom, o chestie mare despre jocuri care are loc in fiecare an in Germania. Zic obligat pentru ca urasc jocurile. Culmea e ca si vechiul si noul job au legatura cu jocurile.
- E posibil sa ne mutam in Irlanda. Iar un job legat de jocuri (wtf?), dar de data asta pentru Irina.
Ne mai auzim. Cred.
P.s: nu merge sa comentati. Nu ca as mai avea vreun cititor…
Poze
A da, in caz ca mai citeste cineva, uite niste poze din excursia de vara asta:
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Scuze domnului RockerMotociclistSatanistViolatorDeBabeLaSemafor, dar era prea tare ca sa nu pun si eu asta pe blog 
Rhapsody: To slay the mighty, great and glorious dragon which honourably bears the unholy symbol of the five flaming crossed swords!
Hammerfall: To come to the home of the brave!
Iron Maiden: It was afraid of the dark.
W.A.S.P.: To fuck something.
Manowar: TO FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH THOR’S MIGHTY MINIONS!!! To rock, drink and ****… AND BE METALLLLLLLLLLL! If the chicken is not into metal, it is NOT MY FRIEND!
Annihilator: Chicken isn’t it frightening, chicken aren’t you scared…?
Yngwie Malmsteen: TO UNLEASH THE ****IN’ FJURRRY!!!!
Ozzy: Chicken gather in their masses… just like witches at black masses…
Metallica: To sue other chicken for crossing his road!
Amon Amarth: TO RIDE FOR VENGEANCE, FIGHT FOR HONOUR, GLORY, DIE IN FIRE!
Sonata Arctica: Chicken, my darling, i’m writing to you, tell me that you still love me, whore…
Helloween: To be friends with the other chicken! WEEEEE! Chicken don’t come easy!
Saxon: WAS IT WEARIN DENIM, WEARIN LEATHER?
Dream Theater: To look another way and not find it there
Immortal: To enter the necrotic frostbitten gates of blashyrkh… mighty grim avendark…
Bal-Sagoth: To enter the cosmic power in its vast void of empty nothingness and swoosh within the astral forces of the northern something.. BLODU OK JARNA!
Bruce Dickinson: He didnt want to be in a band with an Italian drummer. TO THROW ITSELF INTO THE SEA!
Mayhem: To worship satan!
Arch Enemy: It needs your flesh…
Joe Satriani: “tiruli triruliliruliiiiiiiiiiiiii
ChchchchchchtrilululilialuariaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA eeeeeeeeeeauauauauaua *solo*”
Dimmu Borgir: Chicken is war, chicken is pain, chicken is all you’ve ever slain, he is tears in your eyes, he’s the bringer of the blight…
Blind Guardian: ACROSS THE STREET IT WILL BELIEVE (back vokal: ACROSS THE STREET IT WILL BE FREE!)
Venom: Chicken is in league with Satan!
Iced Earth: Saviour to his own, chicken to some,chickenkind falls, something wicked comes!
Angra: To carry on!
Edguy: To fly to the skies of no return.
Hammerfall: It crossed the road on a metal motorbike.
Ubuntu quickies
Install SopCast Player In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal [PPA]
Tool To Backup / Restore Gmail Emails In Linux: `Backup Gmail` [IMAP]
Save Pidgin Passwords In GNOME Keyring Instead Of Plain Text
Faience: New GNOME 3 Icon Theme By Tiheum (GNOME Shell theme bonus)
Integrate Google Music With Ubuntu Sound Menu / Notifications
Installing / Using Classic GNOME Desktop In Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
How To Re-Enable The Notification Area (Systray) In Ubuntu 11.04, For All Applications
Access EXT4 / EXT3 In Windows Using Ext2Fsd
Using Ext2Fsd, a filesystem driver for Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7, you can access your Linux EXT4 / EXT3 partitions easily as if they were native Windows partitions, straight from Windows explorer.
Ext2Fsd also supports writing on EXT4 or EXT3 partitions but the EXT4 write support is experimental and this FS driver will mount EXT4 filesystems in read-only mode, but you can change that if you really have to (but be careful when using this option as it may corrupt your data).
EXT4 partitions will show up as EXT3 in Windows explorer (at least that was the case for me – using Windows 7 and EXT4 partitions) but don’t worry, it will still work.
A lot more information about this (as well as some Ext2Fsd alternatives – see the comments), here: Mount EXT4, EXT3 Or EXT2 Partitions In Windows 7 Or XP
Dropbox Alternatives (Better Privacy)
So you love Dropbox but hate it’s privacy policy and that while it does encrypt your files, they are not encrypted on your computer so if required, Dropbox can hand over your data to the government, etc.?
Here are some secure Dropbox alternatives that you should really consider if you care about your privacy:
Wuala – cross-platform Dropbox alternative
Syncany: A Great Dropbox Alternative Which Supports Multiple Storage Types – this application will rock! It will be able to use basically any storage you can think of as a storage space: Gmail, Picasa, Box.net, any FTP server, Amazon S3, Google Storage and lots more.
SparkleShare – Open Source Dropbox alternative – this application doesn’t come with too many options and is really easy to use. What I like about it is that it uses a GIT repository to sync your files so it’s very easy to set up on your server, etc. Here are a few articles to help you get started with SparkleShare:
- Install Sparkleshare In Ubuntu Via PPA (Open Source Cloud Sync – Dropbox Alternative)
- Set Up Sparkleshare With Your Own Server
- Stable SparkleShare (0.2) Released With Pluggable Backend, Mercurial Support [Cloud Sync Tool]
Install TOR in Ubuntu To Surf The Web Anonymous
TOR is a network that allows you to surf the web anonymous. TOR is available in the Ubuntu repositories (for recent Ubuntu versions), but it this version lacks a lot of features, such as the option to use country-specific exist nodes and more, so to make full use of TOR, it would be a good idea to install the latest version via the TOR Ubuntu / Debian repository. Read about installing and setting up TOR in Ubuntu, here: Install TOR in Ubuntu / Debian (Repository).
And since I’ve mentioned “country-specific exit nodes”, you may be wondering how to use this feature and what’s it’s use? Well, you could use it for let’s say an application that requires you to have a specific IP to use it, like Spotify, Pandora, Google Music and so on. You can set TOR to only use an IP range specific for a country and use one of the above mentioned services just as if you were from that country. More about this, here: [How-To] Listen to Pandora And Spotify Outside US / UK In Linux, Using TOR (With Country Specific Exit Nodes)
Linux Hardware Information Using a GUI or Command Line
Wondering how to get a complete list of your computer’s hardware information for your Linux desktop? Or maybe you want to see the exact hardware specs for your Linux server so you need a command line tool for this? In the following post: Linux Hardware Information (Ubuntu installation instructions) you can read about a command line tool as well as three graphical applications that you can use to get a complete hardware report for your Linux computer. Besides displaying the info, they can also export all the hardware information to an HTML or plain text file and more.
Replace GDM With KDM, LightDM in Ubuntu
When you install a new display manager in Ubuntu, it asks you if you want to switch to it or not but what if you’ve already installed some display managers and want to switch between them. Like say, replace GDM with KDM or LightDM. This method works with any display manager and is really easy – to find out more, see: How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM Or KDM In Ubuntu
