Archive for November, 2010
PHP-GTK Documentation Rewrite
Posted by Justin Martin in Technical on November 16, 2010
All of my recent blog posts seem to start with “For some time”, or similar. I suppose the reason for this is that I’m always writing posts in retrospect, having worked on an issue long enough that I find it interesting enough to blog about. I’m forced to do the same with this post, because [...]
Boot Your Real OS from VirtualBox
Posted by Justin Martin in Technical on November 9, 2010
This post seemed a logical extension of my last post, Installing Ubuntu to a USB Hard Disk. As a preface to this post, I’ll set out the following scenario: You’ve installed Ubuntu to your USB Hard Disk, but now you want to boot into it to configure it. As with the install itself, you’d rather [...]
Installing Ubuntu to a USB Hard Disk
Posted by Justin Martin in Technical on November 4, 2010
Something that I had dabbled with, but never successfully managed until today, was installing Ubuntu to my 250GB external USB hard disk. Obviously, it could easily be done by booting into the installer from a burned CD; but, I wanted to install it without having to shut my system down. The advantage of having Ubuntu [...]