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The XO-1 kids laptop from the One Laptop Per Child is the most inspiring product design I've seen i quite a while. And oh yah, its also supposed to help kids learn around the world. There's one gotcha, though. You...

I am slowly extending my base of used operating systems: after Windows and Solaris, I am now playing a bit with Ubuntu. This is quite exciting for me, since after about 8 years of the early days of Linux (I started with SLS, kernel 0.99.7) I started to focus more on Solaris and Windows after joining Sun. A lot has happened since, and I am quite pleased with the end-user experience that a modern distribution like Ubuntu offers in these days. One issue I had (like Lauren ) was that hibernation of Ubuntu

I've been using VMWare Workstation for several years now (after dumping VirtualPC when Microsoft bought them and promptly dropped support for Linux guest OS integration). As part of my recent upgrade to Windows Vista, I upgraded to VMWare Workstation 6.0 and had to re-enable all of my tricks to get everything working the way I like within the OS (and I had to find them all again as I hadn't written them down as I discovered them previously). So, this time, I've decided to document them here so that