Trying to get Virtual Box 4.1.12 from the software center is not a basic download and run. You can download it, you can run it but when you try to start a machine you create it crashes… always. *PLEASE NOTE* This instruction set is for educational purposes only. If you follow these instructions and something bad happens […]
I finally got my hands on a Chromebook in November of 2012. I enjoyed the idea of a quick simple PC and wanted to get one for myself so I did. I purchased an Acer C7 Chromebook. But not just to run ChromeOS, I wanted it to be a multi-boot machine so I could do […]
So I was having some fun installing Virtual box on my Backtrack 5 R3 install on a new SSD that I am running for a laptop of mine and found an interesting error. error: “VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not […]
For fun (and obvious reasons, to take snapshots), I wanted to run VirtualBox on my Backtrack 5 R3 64-bit GNOME setup. I did the standard looking for it by doing: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0, and getting an error was kind of what I thought I would get. Google being my friend (or […]
So, during a random discussion whilst I played Call of Duty: Black Ops, it was about IP subnetting and the CCNA test. So IP subnetting, basic base-2 math, is actually very simple to accomplish. The tough part is trying to QUICKLY attain this information while testing. I was taken aback when I was asked how […]
So I read an article about a new project called Mouse without Borders on LifeHacker. I’ve been using Synergy for years, and at home I mainly have a multi-OS setup, so it works great for switching between computers there. At work, we are pretty much a Windows shop, so having this mouse sharing WITH clipboard […]
Random IT stuff So I was asked by a co-worker to take a look at his PC and why it was randomly not booting / sometimes not getting to the BIOS, and I told him it is most likely hardware-related. He was hoping his drive was OK for getting files off it, but my suspicion […]