After getting Gentoo installed on my VirtualBox, I realized that my 20 GB virtual HD wasn’t as big as I had thought.  I decided to double my storage. Figuring out what to do was relatively painless.  The Linux Documentation Project has a slightly outdated howto document on hard drive upgrades; the process was almost the [...]

My desktop computer is not working at the moment, so my daughter asked me to install Scholastic Brain Play grade 1-3 (no link available) on my laptop.  When I click on Autorun, I get the following message: The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.  Check your computer’s [...]

My current laptop runs 64-bit Vista.  This computer is used by my family for gaming, so there’s not much chance that I’ll be converting it full-time to Linux.  Instead, I decided to use Sun’s VirtualBox to run a Linux development box under Vista. After much wavering between Ubuntu and Gentoo, I finally settled on the [...]