VirtualBox Seamless Mode – Windows Programs on a Linux Desktop
VirtualBox comes with the seamless mode option that can be enabled from the machine menu in a guest OS. If Microsoft Windows is the guest OS, and seamless mode is enabled, you will see the Windows taskbar above your Gnome or KDE task bar. You will not see the Windows desktop. Anything you run from the Windows taskbar will be in a window directly on your Linux desktop. Seamless mode is for all practical purposes seamless. All your guest OS applications are not run on a separate window, they are run in their own independent windows on the host OS desktop. It is truly a seamless blending of two operating system. To enbale seamless mode with a hotkey, press your globally defined hotkey and “L”. Take seamless mode to the next level (screenshot available)
Tags: desktop, guest, guest os, host os, independent windows, mode, mode option, taskbar, Windows, windows desktop
Android Blackbook – Beta – HTC Models
June 26, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Tags: application, core application, functionality, landscape mode, message client, mode option, Motorola, motorola models, notifications, Today
Posted in htc, motorola | No comments
Android Blackbook is now confirmed to work on older HTC models. This is promising, and later today I will do some tests on Motorola models. There is still many things to do, and many hurdles that simply cannot be overcome. Notifications for missed incoming calls cannot be avoided because the notification is broadcasted from a [...]
VirtualBox Guest Additions on Real Machine – PXE Boot
April 10, 2010 - 10:06 am
Tags: application windows, conf, guest, host, Kernel Modules, mouse movement, nvidia driver, Server, virtual window, virtualbox
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VirtualBox guest additions installs a video driver called vboxvideo. It allows for the machine to adjust its resolution to the dimensions of the application windows. It also allows for seamless mouse movement between the host machine and the virtual window. I manage a server that runs VirtualBox to host several machines. The host is located [...]
Nvidia Driver on Linux – Easy, and Quick
February 7, 2010 - 9:07 am
Tags: desktop, desktop cd, driver, gdm, modules package, nvidia, nvidia driver, open source driver, startup settings, sudo
Posted in driver, gcc, headers, linux, modules, nvidia, xorg | 1 comment
Image via CrunchBase There is a buzz that installing the Linux based Nvidia accelerated graphics driver is complicated. I consider it rather straight forward. First install build-essential, and the headers for your kernel. Those may appear to be some bigs words in the previous sentence, but it is really one line in a terminal window. [...]
Windows 7 – Mapped Network Drive – Extremely Buggy
January 10, 2010 - 10:48 am
Tags: bottom option, file, mapping network, samba, samba shares, share, share results, slow communication, something, Windows, Word
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Update: The slowness was completely caused by the .docx format of Word documents. The documents were converted to traditional .doc and the issues were resolved. When mapping a samba share in Windows 7 there is something very wrong. The shares map the exact same way as in Win vista, and comparable to the method in [...]
2014 – Windows XP Deadline
December 30, 2009 - 9:23 am
Tags: alternative, company, database applications, framework, frontends, linux, longtime staple, thousand dollars, ubuntu, Windows
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Its time for a shift. Windows XP, the longtime staple of industries around the world, has a deadline. It will no longer be supported by Microsoft in 2014. Because of this companies will either need to upgrade to Windows 7, or some sort of alternative. Windows 7 costs been 4-6 thousand dollars for a 30 [...]
Your Server – The Boot Process
December 9, 2009 - 9:49 am
Tags: background processes, client, client side applications, desktop, dession, hard drive, host system, mail server, process, Server, server features, session, side, System, Thunderbird
Posted in MythTV, Server, VBoxTool, desktop, gdm | 1 comment
You want to isolate all your server features into background process. You don’t want any server features to be dependent on graphical or client side applications. I previously had my mail server dependent on the client side filtering capabilities of Thunderbird. This was a no no because it required me to maintain a desktop session. [...]
Fsck – Debian – Ubuntu File System Check
December 6, 2009 - 10:06 am
Tags: asus eeepc, block, c option, desktop, drive, fsck, run, sudo, terminal windows, unmount
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You cannot run fsck from within a desktop session. A desktop session requires run-level 2, and there are way to many applications running to not damage your hard drive irreparably. Therefore open a terminal windows and type: sudo init 1 Then unmount everything: sudo umount -a Then you can run fsck. Run fsck with the [...]
Using vi, or nano – Terminal Text Editors
December 6, 2009 - 9:40 am
Tags: command mode, graphical editors, graphical text editor, grub, mode, nano, Press, text, unix and linux, use, vi, wq
Posted in command, nano, terminal, text, vi | 1 comment
Vi was the original terminal based text editor created for Unix. It is as small and as simple as it gets. The binary resides within the Unix and Linux bins, and can easily be placed on a removable media for ultimate emergency portability. There are three modes to vi: 1. command mode 2. ex mode [...]
$50 iPhone for the Holidays
November 28, 2009 - 10:25 am
Tags: 3gs, black friday deal, communications problems, connectivity issues, DFU, friend, generic communications, holy moly, iPhone, mode, phone, usb ports
Posted in holiday, iPhone, restore | No comments
Chances are good that someone on your shopping list is pining for an iPhone for the holiday season. If you know of such person, then we’ve got a surprise Black Friday deal for you. AT&T is offering refurbished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $49 for new customers. That’s the shipped price, and they’re even waiving the [...]
Your Netbook – Windows, Linux, or Other
November 25, 2009 - 10:47 am
Tags: bsds, google, itel, linux, Microsoft, microsoft operating system, netbooks, operating, sony vaio, Windows
Posted in OS, Windows, linux, netbook | 1 comment
There is a mountain of different operating systems available now. More than ever before in history. The main players are Microsoft Windows, Debian based operating systems, Red Hat’s OSs, Unixs, BSDs, and upcoming Google Chrome OS. What OS do you use? What OS is better? How does Windows compete with free? While some netbooks are [...]
December 31, 2007 - 11:31 pm
This works great.
Just two bugs. Not crippling, just annoying:
1) All Windows windows + Windows taskbar are on one window/layer on the linux desktop. So bringing one Windows window to the top will bring them all.
2) Under Compiz (on Kubuntu Feisty), you have to have at least one window up and visible (not minimized), or your Windows desktop will show through all glitchy.
Other than these, it works nicely.
January 1, 2008 - 4:02 pm
Interesting bugs. I use Debian, which is much more stable. I have used Ubuntu and Kubuntu and with Nvidia drivers I never like the performance, and always resorted back to Debian for the stability. On K/Ubuntu the nvidia drivers are installed via nvidia-glx-new, but on Debian they are installed with the drivers script provided directly by Nvidia. This script causes Xorg.conf problems on K/Ubuntu, although work perfectly on Debian.
On Debian I notice no major glitches or malfunctions. You can have any Windows window open on the Linux desktop, and you can minimize them all. I briefly see the Windows Desktop prior to maximizing a Windows windows to full screen.
February 1, 2008 - 6:41 pm
Ubuntu Gutsy using onboard ATI graphics on Thinkpad T60 using proprietary ATI driver and Compiz-Fusion running
I’m seeing exact behavior as Andrew, so it has nothing to do with nVidia drivers.
These issues just annoy, but won’t stop me from using the product. This is on my work machine, and I use it to run Outlook and MS Project mostly (being on my work machine says how much I still trust this app though)
May 12, 2008 - 5:46 pm
I think the problem is… the microsoft bar ends up covering the panel. afaik… it’s supposed to sit above the panel… not cover it.
November 4, 2009 - 3:16 am
on gentoo it works just perfect.
no bugs at all.
i have a dualboot running gentoo 10.0 and Sabayon 5,
and both running perfectly in seamless mode..
you can also use 2 monitors instead, if your hardware support it, and use x.org on one monitor, and microsoft on the other.. or KDE on one mon. and Gnome on the other is also possible…. atleast with Gentoo…
May 4, 2010 - 5:46 pm
Heya, already been reading your blogging site for a long time. I manage a comparable blog page but I keep receiving a pile of spam comments, how can you maintain your blog page so clean?
May 5, 2010 - 10:25 am
Askimet is a plugin for wordpress, and can also be installed directly in a website with some coding. It will definitely do the trick.