Author: johayek
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booting a VirtualBox VM on a MacBook Pro from a Win8.1 DVD: “FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.”
I had tried in vain booting that DVD with changed parameters in the VM set-up. I searched the web for the error message “FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.“. I did not simply try to navigate the DVD in the OS X Finder – but doing that at a rather early…
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Win8.1 as a VirtualBox VM on Apple’s Mac OS X
I want to run a UK-English Windows 8.1 in a VM. I purchased a DVD. VirtualBox 4.3.12 offers Windows 8.1 as a supported guest operating system. Creating the VM looks easy. When I attempt to boot from the DVD, this message gets displayed after a couple of minutes: FATAL: Could not read from the boot…
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“VMware Player” is an alternative to Oracle’s VirtualBox, but “VMware Player” does not run on Apple’s Mac OS X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Player
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Mobee Magic Feet – the universal charging station for all your Apple input devices: the wireless key, the magic mouse, the magic trackpad
http://www.mobeetechnology.com/the-magic-feet.html http://www.apple.com/de/mac-mini/ – the “Magic Feet” are for a Mac mini
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my Synology NAS DS213+ suggested an update, and afterwards the web-gui is not accessable again
I can still ssh into the NAS from remote, and I just rebooted: root@DiskStation $ shutdown -r now … but https://FQDN:5001/webman is just not accessable right now. That scares me “a little”. I shall try again, as soon as I shall be attached to my home LAN in a couple of days. At least I can…
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1st things back in “freedom”
“Freedom” means “after the crontract / job, that fed me for the last 1.75 years” – and actually payments for May and June are still due. Completed: firmware-upgrading the FRITZ!Box 7490, that I had at work, there connected to the Internet via UMTS-USB-stick, now connected through the “hotel’s” LAN ultimo 2014-06/07 communication with tax account…
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Sunday afternoon jogging at Berlin Tiergarten: 9.42 km in 01:00:30
https://flow.polar.com/training/analysis/18080215 From maps (picture via http://picasaweb.google.com)
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how to add something from the web to your WordPress blog? use “Press This” bookmarklet from the Tools administrative section of your blog
Copy the bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark manager! That way you can bookmark anything from within your browser, when you feel like it. Works fine with Chromium. At least something to start with.