First of all, we need to download the installation media of VirtualBox and then install it on your computer. You can get VirtualBox from virtualbox.org and then run ...

If you've ever suffered through a painful Windows update or watched in disbelief as your MacBook decided to slow to a crawl and switch its fan into jumbo-jet-at-takeoff mode, you know that there's one ...

ALL MAJOR CONSUMER operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, are way too easy to hack. One mishap — opening the wrong email attachment, installing malware that pretends to be Flash, ...

Microsoft Hyper-V is continuously improving its support for Linux distributions, but some occasional manual tweaking is necessary to accomplish tasks. Take, for example, an installation of Ubuntu in a ...

PXE stands for Preboot Execution Environment and is a client-server interface that makes it possible for computers to be booted from a remote server on a network. This makes it possible for you to ...

I moved a VMWare image from one computer to another, both running VMWare server 1.01. When I moved the image onto the other computer, I (without thinking) had it generate a new unique ID. The image ...

I've just survived my first full 24 hours under Ubuntu. I say “24 hours” and not “day” because the term “day” infers that there was a following “night” during which I actually rested. On the contrary, ...