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Boot VirtualBox Guest From A USB Device

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The BIOS of guest computers in VirtualBox doesn’t support booting from a USB device, and in this case users can’t boot off their (usually Linux equipped) USB thumb-drives or hard disks.

This is a mini tutorial that includes a temporary workaround until that feature is implemented (I am not sure if it’s a planned feature, it just might be)

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2009-09-22 at 18:37

A Project I Am Glad To Maintain

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Recently, I have became in charge of maintaining an all-in-one compiled-help-file (CHM) version of the C++ FAQ Lite Online C++ tutorial.

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Written by lawand

2009-01-04 at 22:30

My S60 Feature Wishes

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S60 is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS.

I am an S60 enthusiast, and both the latest mobile phones that I owned were based on S60: N-Gage QD and currently E51.

My Feature Wishes

Now, while browsing the WWW I found a couple of useful websites that provide news and general information about S60, one of these websites is S60.com which gives the registered users the ability to submit wishes of future applications and features to be added to the S60 platform, and these are the feature wishes that I submitted:

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Written by lawand

2008-09-24 at 18:46