This weekend I tried to install Windows XP inside Ubuntu 9.04 via VirtualBox on an old computer but was troubled by a serious of GRUB booting errors. First, it was the “Grub loading stage1.5 Read error”. After tweaking the BOIS settings, I could get away with the stage1.5 error but was plagued with other disk [...]

Posted in Ubuntu Tips No Comments »

Update (April 24, 2009): The following entry applies to dual-boot (Ubuntu or Windows). After learning the fact that I can install Windows inside Ubuntu (not the other way around) via VirtualBox for Ubuntu, I do not recommend dual boot anymore. When you get used to Ubuntu, you will use it more and more and you [...]

Posted in Miscellaneous 2 Comments »

This past long weekend (Canada’s Civic Day) I have been playing with a free linux-based desktop operating system on all the PCs in our house. It has a strange name: Ubuntu. I must say that I like it a lot – it is much better than Lindows/Linspire which I tried and abandoned years ago because [...]

Posted in Ubuntu Tips No Comments »

My wife and I have access to five computers – three desktop PCs in our DiaSolid Tools and Supplies store and two notebook computers at home. We find one common problem with all of them… Whether running Windows XP or Vista, they run very fast when new but slows down with time even when we [...]

Posted in Handy Offline Tools 1 Comment »