January 26, 2009

VirtualBox rocks!

I started using Linux back in 1995, and soon abandoned Windows in favor of Linux, only occasionally dual-booting to Windows for the known reasons you can't avoid (PowerPoint)! Using Gentoo for the last 5 years I was feeling like trying more Linux distributions. Getting a larger storage space, I started installing OpenSuse, Sabayon, Kubuntu, etc. Soon it became a bit of headache until I found out about VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a virtual machine program allowing you to run a large number of guest OSes (Operating Systems) from your host OS.

I have since then kept only one main Linux distribution and run every other OS through VirtualBox.

There may be a lot of virtualization solutions now-days but hey, VirtualBox is free, easy to setup and use. It runs on both Linux, Windows and Leopard and allows for both Linux and Windows guest operating systems (not supporting Leopard guest is the only missing point). It also supports enhanced host OS integration through the so called guest applications!

It is also fast even for machines without hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) support, as long as you have enough memory to run any Guest OS (768 should be enough in most cases). I tested it on my old laptop (IBM R50e Pentium M 1.5 GHz - no hardware virtualization support) and I was impressed by it's speed!

Well done Sun!

Coolness factor: 5/5!

PDF genius

I was Googling myself until I got a new result pointing on my PDF resume by this pdfgeni page.

Sure, you can pdf-search using Google alone, but this is really cool!

Pdfgeni not only allows you to search PDFs using their site, they also do offer a search plugin for both IE and Firefox. Additionally they offer a ton of links to various interesting free e-books in their page to enrich your collection!

Coolness factor: 4.5/5!

January 25, 2009

My geek blog ...

From times to times I praise my hacker alter ego come back, so this blog will hopefully serve as a place to share my computer geek related thoughts, enjoy!!

Hello world!

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