Month: December 2006

Yahoo! Hack Day 2006/Q4

100+ hacks. Amazing. Technorati tag: hackdayq406...

So everyone knows that VMware Player is free, but it doesn't let you create virtual machines; only play existing ones. Luckily, the .vmx file format is a simple plain-text format and there are tools out there that will help you...

GeneralLinux

Installing OS/2 Warp 4 on Linux with VMware Player

I'm in a nostalgic mood lately, what with all the Atari stuff and now this. I never got the OS/2 Warp 4 install to work in QEMU, but I'm most of the way through it in VMware Player, albeit very, very, very slowly. Here's a few...

GeneralTiVo

Happiness is…

Having your TiVo Series 3 record two HD programs simultaneously....

General

BotCheck out, Akismet in

I finally got tired of seeing the intermittent garbled characters in the CAPTCHA displayed by BotCheck in my comment form. I dug my API key out of an old email and set up Akismet and disabled BotCheck. So far so good. I was...

LinuxMacUbuntu

Ubuntu 6.10 on my PowerBook

My PowerBook has been continually crashing in OS X. As a last ditch attempt at salvaging it (or proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hardware is bad), I'm running the PowerPC version of Ubuntu on it....

Linux

Trying to install OS/2 Warp 4: Stuck

I've been attempting to install OS/2 Warp 4 in a QEMU virtual machine and it seems to almost work, except that it gets stuck on this step: "Loading system files. Please wait...". If anyone has any ideas how to get past this, let...