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Random Thought for the day – Xbox 360 Kinect Just Dance 4 and JDTV

Not sure how many people actually know this (I would guess most since it says upload to JDTV on the Xbox 360), but when you finish dancing at Just Dance 4 for the Xbox you get to see / edit a video of yourself.  When finishing you can upload to the Just Dance TV station […]

Acer C7 Mostly Working Virtual Box 4.1.12 in Chrubuntu 12.04

Trying to get Virtual Box 4.1.12 from the software center is not a basic download and run.  You can download it, you can run it but when you try to start a machine you create it crashes… always. *PLEASE NOTE* This instruction set is for educational purposes only.  If you follow these instructions and something bad happens […]

Chromebook C-7 Running Ubuntu 12.04

I finally got my hands on a Chromebook in November of 2012.  I enjoyed the idea of a quick simple PC and wanted to get one for myself so I did.  I purchased an Acer C7 Chromebook.  But not just to run ChromeOS, I wanted it to be a multi-boot machine so I could do […]

Fun with Virtualbox and Error with 64bit Hardware Acceleration on Lenovo T420

So I was having some fun installing Virtual box on my Backtrack 5 R3 install on a new SSD that I am running for a laptop of mine and found an interesting error. error: “VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and […]

Getting Virtualbox running on Backtrack 5 R3 Gnome

For fun (and obvious reasons for being able to take snapshots) I wanted to run virtualbox on my Backtrack 5 R3 64bit Gnome setup.  I did the standard looking for it by doing – sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0 and getting an error was kind of what I thought would get. Google being […]

Magic Box IP Subnetting

  So  a random discussion whilst I play Call of Duty:Black Ops was IP subnetting and the CCNA test.  So IP subnetting, basic base 2 math, is actually very simple to accomplish.  The tough part is trying to QUICKLY attain this information while testing. I was taken back when I was asked how I did […]