I used to think the Ubuntu release names were weird.
I, for one, would be happy to see daylight savings time ended.
Very thoughtful piece about the difference between Apple and Google.
I like to read. I read everyday and I am usually reading more than one book on any given day. Paperback, hardback, or eBook, mystery, action, suspense, novel, and even the occasional non-fiction – all are fair game. In 2010 I kept track of the titles I read, so I know I completed 85 books that year.
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Currently I’m reading two books at home. The first, checked out from the library a week or so ago is Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants. It’s the first of a trilogy about World War I.
The book is lengthy at about 985 pages, and heavy too. My bathroom scale puts it at an even 3.0 pounds. Laying in bed at night, reading before turning the light off to sleep is a workout.
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Since I have all of Stephenson’s other books I don’t know why I thought this one would make a better late-at-night-reading-in-bed book, but I did. At least until I got to the library to check it out. It weighs 2.4 pounds and measures 1024 pages. The .6 pound difference does make the book noticeable lighter, but the book still gets heavy after a while.
{{ “0345529057” | amazon_smallleft_image }} On our recent trip to Germany I decided not to take any paper books at all. Instead I relied upon the Kindle app on my iPad for reading. I consumed the first two George R. R. Martin books from the Song of Ice and Fire series.
A total of about 1800 pages that weight no more than the iPad itself. I find reading on the iPad to be comfortable and enjoyable. However it isn’t the same has having books.
There is a certain smell to books, and a pleasing heft in your hand as you carry one. I like the creak of the binding as you open a new book, and I delight in finding old receipts or business cards that I used as bookmarks when I reread a book.
I will always want real books in my home, both to read and to have and display. But, late in the evening when I am in bed reading, there are times when I think eBooks are a better solution, if only to reduce the chance of hurting myself when I drop a three pound novel on my face.
This decades old Calvin and Hobbes comic strip perfectly and succinctly explains the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Print ads from 1975 to 2002.
It’s a credit card sized and shaped when folded up, and a pocket knife when open. I love designs like this. via @thecurtain
Yes, it’s a Google Analytics commercial, but it makes a really good point.
This made my head asplode.
The guest hard drive created by VirtualBox to house each guest operating system is rather large. If you want to move this directory to another location on your system to regain space, here’s how.
VirtualBox stores information about guest operating systems and the setup of your VirtualBox installation in a file called VirtualBox.xml. On Mac OS X this file is located in the system Library folder: /Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml. On most Linux distributions it is located in ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml.
Note that VirtualBox doesn’t expect you to edit this file manually. The comment block opening the XML file indicates you should use the VBoxMange command line tool or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes to this file. Edit the XML file at your own risk. Make a backup first. You must stop all VirtualBox guests, and quit VirtualBox before manually editing this file. Otherwise when you quit VirtualBox it will overwrite your changes.
Use your favorite editor to edit the XML file. Locate the <MachineRegistry> block in the file. This is where the location of each guest OS is specified. On my Mac OS X system, each entry looks something like this:
`<MachineEntry uuid="{52dd04ba-a6e6-498c-9f9e-b3435a51ef3c}" src=/Users/mark/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu/Ubunt.vbox"/>`
Change the src parameter to point to the new location. Save the XML file.
Move the guest operating system directory, in the example above the Ubuntu/, to the new location.
Start VirtualBox and select the newly moved guest OS and everything should work as before.
In my case I moved six guest operating systems (Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu 10, Ubuntu 11, Xubuntu 11, and Fedora 16) from the SSD drive to a spinning drive on my iMac, freeing up nearly 60 GB of SSD space.