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Interesting happenings in Ubuntu-land (aka my laptop)

So, my old nemesis has come back to haunt me: installing all sorts of programs on my laptop and then finding out I didn't like or really need them, proceeding to uninstall them and finding out said programs have left all sorts of traces on my laptop. It's rather frustrating to someone like me who will resort to a reformat of her laptop just to keep the pristine nature of things! Right now, I've got a bunch of entries in my "Users and Groups" that I know I have no need off. However, a simple deletion of those entries simply ...

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Using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 & VirtualBox

So, for a long while, Sun's VirtualBox xVM has been my 'virtualization' product of choice. Mostly because I had tried the much talked about Microsoft Virtual PC product and couldn't figure out how it ran. Then, I read about VirtualBox (which had been owned by Innotek before it was bought out by Sun) was perfect for running ISOs of Ubuntu or whatever Linux distro I had on hand. It has USB support which I had also read was something that Microsoft Virtual PC lacked (it has an alternative called Virtual Machine additions). However, I had never been able ...

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