Windows

There are many good articles on how to use Virtual Box.

Included below are some links.  Let some others use their own words.
Some have Screenshots, some without

How do you clone a virtual machine with Sun Virtual Box?

The short answer is:
use VBoxManage to "clone" the disk.  this changes the uuid of the virtual disk.
use the GUI or the command VboxManage to make a new virtual machine
then attach the cloned virtual disk to the new virtual machine.

How to is included below:

Virtualization and Cloud Computing are both very hot topics and are definitely changing computing as we know it.   I have been investigating virtualization for over a year now and wanted to share some of my insights which are rarely found in one spot, nor in plain language.   So the time is now! Give it a try: Sun Virtualbox, Xen, KVM - all are good.

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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have improved support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preliminary support for Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.0 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have also added preliminary support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.0 is $25.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

The ultimate software "fix" is to wipe the hard disk and reload from scratch. All data is lost (address books, financial records, pictures, music etc.) and it takes a lot of time. Programs too. Thus it is generally considered the last resort. But many machines are so "slimed" that it should be the first.

Simply the best CD DVD burning application for Windows. And it's free! Download ImgBurn from FileHippo.com

Every few weeks, we update a collection of "free" downloads for Windows. Most are available from http://filehippo.com, a few from Microsoft and a few from other sources. The current contents are:

7z904.exe                             jre-6u14-windows-i586.exe
AdbeRdr90_en_US.exe                   KompoZer 0.7.10
AdobeAIRInstaller.exe                 kompozer-0.7.10-win32.zip
adobe-svg-viewer.exe                  Miro_Installer.exe
audacity-win-unicode-1.3.8.exe        mysql-essential-5.1.36-win32.msi
autorunsc.exe                         npp.5.4.5.Installer.exe
autoruns.chm                          Opera_1000_en_b2_Setup.exe
autoruns.exe                          pidgin-2.5.8.exe
Autoruns.zip                          pidgin-microblog-0.2.0.exe
ccsetup221.exe                        RealPlayer11GOLD.exe
FileZilla_3.2.6.1_win32-setup.exe     SetupImgBurn_2.4.4.0.exe
Firefox Setup 3.5.1.exe               SkypeSetupFull.exe
gnumeric-1.9.1-win32-20080625.exe     vcredist_x86.exe
IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe             vlc-0.9.9-win32.exe
install_flash_player_10_active_x.exe  WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe
install_flash_player_10.exe           wlsetup-custom.exe
irfanview_plugins_425_setup.exe       wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe
iview425_setup.exe                    xiphos-3.0.1-win32.exe

You can pick up a copy free at our offices in downtown Galax. We will mail one by USPS for $5. Several observations need to me made and observed.

• the entire collection or any of its components come with no warranty and fitness of use for any purpose is expressly denied.
• many different licenses apply. In no case is payment required to install and use the software. In some cases a valid Microsoft licensed installation is required.
• important programs are missing from the collection including Spybot and Avira. We will fix that for the next compilation. We may have to go to DVD instead of CD
• assuredly, some of the programs are out-of-date. I noticed Flash 11 this morning.
• intellectual investment is required. If you need help, use Google. If that isn't enough, you can request help through the contact link on the left. Your experience with any of the programs is welcome. Individual paid support is available.

Introduction

Bordeaux is a Wine GUI configuration manager that runs winelib applications. It also supports installation of third party utilities, installation of applications and games, and the ability to use custom configurations. Bordeaux is written in GTK and requires GTK 2.10 or higher to be installed on a given system. Bordeaux also uses wget and cabextract extensively and they should be installed for Bordeaux to operate correctly.

Getting Bordeuax 1.8.0

Bordeaux is a commercial product which is currently available only as a download and cost from ($20.00) to ($25.00) depending on your architecture A DVD version is planned for the 2.x release and will cost a little extra for the media.

Their is no free demo of Bordeaux available at this time, this will also change with the 2.x release but instead of a time restricted demo Bordeaux 2.x will have a free non restricted limited version that will install a couple standard applications and let the user get a feel for the application. Then if they choose they can purchase the full version and have access to all the supported applications and support.

Installing Bordeaux 1.8.0

• Their is a .sh installer for Linux, Free-BSD and Solaris
• Their is also .deb and .rpm packages for Linux
• Their is a .pbi package for PC-BSD
• Their is a .dmg package in a tar.gz for Mac

To install Bordeaux I became root and used the following command:

dpkg -i bordeaux-linux.x86.deb

Supported Platforms

Bordeaux 1.8.0 is built for Linux, BSD, Solaris and a Mac beta is currently available. The product has been tested on:

• Ubuntu 8.04 and higher, Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandrake, and Gentoo
• FreeBSD 7.1, 7.2
• PC-BSD 7.1
• Opensolaris 2008.11, 2009.06
• Mac OSX 10.5.7 and higher

Bordeuax should run on all current Linux distributions

Supported Software

Bordeaux 1.8.0 currently supports

• Microsoft Office 2007
• Microsoft Office 2003
• Microsoft Office 2000
• Microsoft Office 97
• Microsoft Office Visio 2003
• Microsoft Office Project 2003
• Adobe Photoshop 6
• Adobe Image Ready 3
• Adobe Photoshop 7
• Adobe Image Ready 7
• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• Steam and Steam based Games

Please note Office 2007 isn't supported on Solaris at this time.

Installing Software with Bordeaux

For this review I have installed three applications that I have that Bordeaux supports. IE 6 which is a free download, Adobe (PhotoShop 7) I know its a little behind the times but it's the latest version I own. And I also have Microsoft Office 2007.

To install a application in Bordeaux just go to your Applications menu then Bordeaux and select "Install Windows Applications" and Bordeaux will start up.

Once Bordeaux is running just double click on Application you want to install and their scripts will install any needed libraries for you.

The install of IE 6 is simple, I just started Bordeaux and double clicked IE 6 and the install proceeded without and problems. All I had to do was follow the install and answer a couple installation related questions.

PhotoShop 7 was just as easy as IE 6, I just double clicked PhotoShop 7 and the install started. After Bordeaux installed some needed libraries a dialog came up and ask me to browse to the install media. I then browsed to my PhotoShop 7 CD and and selected setup.exe and the install proceeded. After the install completed I had short cuts for PhotoShop 7 and Image Ready 7 in my Applications menu under Wine > Programs.

To run PhotoShop 7 all I had to do was go to Applications > Wine and click on the shortcut and PhotoShop started up and ran as expected.

Microsoft Office 2007 installation goes just like IE 6 and PhotShop 7 just double click the field in Bordeaux and the install starts and runs with any problems. The main difference in the install is when the install reaches about 75% it seems to slow down, I can see that its still working in the background and after about a 10 minute wait the install successfully completed.

Shortcuts for Office 2007 were also added under Applications > Wine > Programs Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 are supported and run at virtually native windows speed on my Ubuntu system. With the limited testing ive done so far the only problem ive ran into is sometimes the equation editor doesn't display fonts as expected, other then that everything has worked as expected.

Full Review

A neighbor gave me four huge butternut squashes.  Since I put eight butternut squash seeds in the ground in May and haven't seen so much as a sprout, I was grateful.  I thought I would try to find a recipe on the internet which reproduces Cambell's Select Butternut Squash Soup; a family favorite, but pricey at $2.50 for two servings.  I found one web page entitled, "Copycat Recipe Campbell's Select Butternut Squash Soup"--but I'm not going to share the URL with my blog readers.  Read on to find out why.