Recently I became a fan of VirtualBox, the virtualization platform from Sun Microsystems. It’s robust, it has an extremely small memory foot-print comparing it to other similar virtual managers and it has some great features. You can find more about it on its homepage. Yesterday I have updated VirtualBox from 2.2.4 to 3.1. Unfortunately, the
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UPDATE 2: I strongly recommend against using this patch any more and relaying on the solution provided by UPDATE 1. UPDATE 1: Please check the solution from here as it represents the correct approach for fixing this problem in Ubuntu (all releases). Also, the patch from this post doesn’t work for the kernel included in
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Scripts to avoid clicking in three places once they start their computer: This starts those three programs in the background once I log in provided that I add this script in System – Preferences – Startup Applications in Ubuntu.

This came to me through a colleague at work: Saying that Java is nice because it works on every OS is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on every gender.

Today I got my second iPod, which now is an iPod Touch. It’s an awesome gadget that I can’t get enough of. I have already made it Twitter, write statuses on Facebook, sign into my mail account in Google Apps, on Yahoo Messenger and now I am writing this post on it. Steve Jobs is
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Following a previous unsuccesful try of using Twitter, I am now back on the famous microblogging platform. You can follow me there using this URL: http://twitter.com/raducotescu. I have also set a WordPress plugin that will tweet my posts there and also the updates I make to posts.

Since I installed Ubuntu on my laptop (an Asus X55sv with Intel Core 2 Duo T7500) a few months ago, I still faced one bug I was ashamed to write about because I wasn’t sure if it was a bug or just my fingers made the strange thing happen from time to time. I am
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For those of you who have installed (updated to) the new Firefox 3.5 and have problems with using the right click (the contextual menu not showing up) the solution to fix this is to get rid of the Yahoo Toolbar. From my brief experience with it on Windows (Firefox 3.5 is not available yet in
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