Archive for November, 2010

PHP-GTK Documentation Rewrite

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 [...]

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Boot Your Real OS from VirtualBox

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 [...]

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Installing Ubuntu to a USB Hard Disk

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 [...]

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