[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[Patrick]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:46:03 -0700
Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn wrote:

> Just a note to thank Patrick & John for their interesting presentations (we
> got 2 for the price of 1<g>) on the Asus EEE from Patrick & on Virtual Box
> from John. I'm going to try out Virtual Box tomorrow.......

Thanks.  :-)

After this second try at giving a presentation, I have to say
it's a lot more like a conversation than an essay.  I prepared
differently, without any particular sequence in mind, but still
felt woefully unprepared when it was actually time to get up
there and *talk*.  Was it obvious?

Anyway, thanks for your patience.  :-)

Also forgot one potentially serious pitfall; remember the part
about external devices automatically mounting, then a dialogue
pops up asking if you want to look at that filesystem in the file
manager, picture viewer, or whatever?

These don't automatically *un*mount at shutdown, so you need to
right-click on the `USB device' icon on the status bar, select
`Safely Remove Hardware', and let it do its thing before shutting
down.  Not too serious if you haven't written, rewritten or
deleted anything on the device [I skipped this step, a couple of
times during the presentation], but can make a mess of things if
you did.

And just a quick note; the `Safely Remove' option will completely
disconnect the device, including power supply, so if you just
want to charge your MP3 player or something, use;
sudo umount /dev/device

But enough about me...



Thanks John.  :-)

Your overview of VirtualBox was very interesting, and in many
ways it looks more versatile than the average dual-boot setup.
Being able to switch systems just by clicking in a different
window looks *really_neat*.  :-)

One possible cute trick with that would be to install a very small
`primary' system to act as host OS [say, Puppy, DSL or something
like that], but to do most of your actual work in assorted guest
OSes.

If I ever set up a system like that, its hostname would probably
be `hydra'.  ;-)


> 
> 8-)
> Joan

:-)

Patrick.

-- 
Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by
asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system
and you should look into it.
		-- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes