Lawand's Blog

Archive for the ‘Personal Experience’ Category

Use Your PC!

with 2 comments

I like to push computers to maximum productivity, this time I as was working on a 1.7 GHz Pentium4 Celeron PC equipped with 512MB of RAM, here are the applications I was using:

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by lawand

2009-11-16 at 02:46

Boot VirtualBox Guest From A USB Device

with 7 comments

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)

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by lawand

2009-09-22 at 18:37

A Project I Am Glad To Maintain

with one comment

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by lawand

2009-01-04 at 22:30

My S60 Feature Wishes

with 4 comments

It seems that S60.com is now closed. I am looking for an alternative place to put these wishes at.

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:

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by lawand

2008-09-24 at 18:46