High Tech Sister
My Daily Tech Challenges, Solutions, And Observations

Okay, virtualBox has been installed and configured, and the windows xp virtual machine is running smoothly. Now it’s time to examine why I chose dual booting instead of virtualization. To quickly recap, I only need windows for an art class that I am taking. For this class I need use of my wacom intuos3 tablet and Photoshop CS3. So let’s first look at setting up the wacom tablet on the windows xp virtual machine….

Overview

Article 1 covers installing and configuring my virtualization platform of choice, the Sun xVM VirtualBox.

Article 2 covers installing Windows XP on VirtualBox and configuring system hardware and peripherals.

Article 3 covers the pros and cons of using a virtual machine as well as for which types of projects they are suited.

Alright, it’s time to pick up [...]

As a result of my last article series on dual booting, I’ve been asked quite a few times why I decided to dual boot my linux machine with windows xp instead of installing windows on a virtualization platform such as VM Server or VirtualBox. The short answer to this question is that I have used virtual machines in the past, but they do have their own set of limitations. However using virtual machines is a good option in many situations. So in response, I’ve decided to examine the process of using virtual machines and some of their perks and and shortcomings. Below is a quick overview of what I’m going to cover….

A few days ago when I was visiting my mom, my sister showed me a bulletin that she’d received about preparing to take the ACT test.  I was kind of surprised at first seeing as she is only in the seventh grade.  She’s not even in high school yet!  She has tons of homework and [...]

I guess nautilus has had a bug that causes a segmentation fault when you try to run it as root while a blank CD/DVD is mounted for a while — at least in the Ubuntu Hardy 64 version I’m using. However, it’s been so long since I’ve needed to burn a cd/dvd that I [...]

Overview

Article 1 covers Introductory Information and Preparations necessary before You Install Any Additional Operating System.

Article 2 covers System information collection, Necessary Data backup, and Installing Windows.

Article 3 covers editing the boot information on each hard drive to make the Dual Booting Process seamless.

This article is part 3 of a series of three articles that detail [...]

This article is part 2 of a series of three articles that detail how I got Ubuntu 64 Bit Hardy and Windows XP dual booting on my box while being installed on different hard drives. It differs from some dual booting methods in that I already had linux installed prior to installing windows. Just like anything else though, this method may not work for everyone as it is specific to my system configuration, and that plays a big part in setting up any software. But you may be able to find some bits that help you in your own undertaking….

As I mentioned in a previous article, I’ve been needing to install Windows for an art class I’m starting next month. So after about a year and a half of being a complete linux convert, I’m putting windows back on my box. But I’m keeping linux. The solution — dual booting my machine. I still have nightmares from dual booting my machine several years ago, and it’s not something I’d do on a whim. However, I thought in all certainty with all the time that has passed, the process must be less harsh. Whether it is or not is a matter of opinion, but this is exactly the problem I’m tackling here….

I recently ordered a cd and was surprised to find out that the audio files were not only in the WMA format, but in the WMA Lossless format which uses the .wma extension just as the older format.  I’m sure there’s a way, but none of the things I tried would get the files to [...]