MacBook Pro, OS X – what a piece of overpriced crap!

Posted by Teknomagus on 2012/01/30 · 1 Comment 

Last autumn I was given new tools to do my development and research. So this is what I am using now: – 17″ MacBook Pro with 8 GB of memory and upgraded Intel i7 – 2x 27″ Thunderbolt displays – Promise Pegasus RAID (4 TB) Someone may think that “hey, what a lucky guy!”. Instead, … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox, OS X and upgrading Ubuntu guest from 11.04 to 11.10

Posted by Teknomagus on 2011/12/19 · Leave a Comment 

For some time now I have been working on a shiny new MacBook Pro. Before I got it I had already made a decision to leave OS X on it and continue my research and development on Linux virtual machine. I just made an exact disk image of the disk in my Linux laptop, transformed … Continue reading →

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How to convert VMWare .vmdk disk images to VirtualBox .vdi images

Posted by Teknomagus on 2011/07/03 · 3 Comments 

I just wrote step by step instructions on how to convert VMWare virtual machine disk images into VirtualBox format. You’ll have to install qemu also. Full instructions are here

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