I saw this email today and I felt like it was worth a share for consideration. I have my own thoughts on the matter and it would be interested to see other thoughts on it. I feel a deep dive on this topic of ‘problem versus reaction’ is well worth it… Somehow your response prompted me to dig into this…
Month: January 2021
COVID19 CORONAVIRUS MARKETING COMMENTARY
I’m one of those people who just can’t find time or care to participate in popular news. So what I do is I go to duckduckgo.com once in a while and scan the headlines. Since Covid19 arrived I’ve been unable to toss the thought that there seems to be a qualified marketing firm behind it. People are ‘talking the talk’…
Making Roblox work on Ubuntu
Before you Begin – A Brief History As sad as this is, and as many countless hours as I’ve wasted on this that I’ll never get back, I’ve resolved there is no way to make Roblox work in Ubuntu / linux – not even running in a VM on Ubuntu. If you want to read more about the vm journey,…
Getting Virtualbox working on Lenovo E540 and T530 on Ubuntu 20.04
Turns out this was a bit of a perfect storm for this combo to start working. There is a bug where some dependency linux header thing messes up getting the right DKMS thing installed and it presents these kind of errors no matter what tricks you try to pull: The BIOS in the Lenovos had need of enabling virtualization Part…
Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Windows 10 VM on an Ubuntu Host
Virtualbox can do a lot more if you get the ‘guest additions’ stuff working. You can read up on other people’s blogs about that more. For now, I just wanted to walk through a bullet point summary of how to get it working on a Windows machine running as a VM inside an Ubuntu Virtualbox host. Probably this method will…