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VirtualBox 2.0.6

Do upgrade. It makes things Just Work.
Right now I’ve got my Nokia E62 connected to a WinXP instance without having to do any additional work than what I did before. So it’s all good now.
Hey! My third gen iPod works too! The halcyon days of Winamp + ml_ipod have come back. No more suffering around [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 Static IP addresses

It looks like I’m not the only one to have run into difficulties with NetworkManager 0.7 in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
Myself I was forced to get rid of NetworkManager for two reasons:

I needed my virtual machine instances to have Real Networking (better known as Host Networking) in VirtualBox.
My ISP’s DNS servers suck. They like to point [...]

Virtualbox on Ubuntu 8.10

So I finally built a new computer (more on that later). Put the Intrepid Ibex RC on the system and it’s been working flawlessly. For a release candidate, it’s working out much better than Hardy (it was installed for about 20 minutes).
Since I’ve got enough CPU and RAM to put a couple of VMs, went [...]