Archive for August, 2007

Windows on Ubuntu USB stick

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

I achieved a sad geek triumph the other day – a wonderful heath robinson
arrangement that lets me run Ubuntu linux on my work machine with
minimal risk.
In brief – ubuntu boots from a 4g usb stick. /home and other bits are
stored in a folder on my (ntfs) hard disk. And I can run Windows, from
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New blog!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Yes, although I’m chronically slow at updating this blog, I’ve now branched out to a new blog – mainly as superb.net, the host for sietsma.com, set up free WordPress, and the temptation of having http://blog.sietsma.com (with 24/7 support!) was too much to resist!
I’ll keep this blog here, for a bit at least, in case I [...]

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