VirtualBox Boot Error - "NET: Registered protocol family 2"

I was trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 in VirtualBox 4.1.22 and it would get stuck during boot at the following stage,

"NET: Registered protocol family 2"

Enabling 'IO APIC' as mentioned at Cloudera VirtualBox boot error NET: Registered protocol family 2   did the trick. Thanks Deepak.

Install Windows 8 from USB drive

Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool can be used to prepare a USB drive with the Windows 8 setup.


The complete guide is available here.
Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is available @ CodePlex

Dual Booting Windows 7 and Windows 8

Lifehacker has a good article on dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8. Check it out here

How i cleaned my Blackberry's trackball

oday morning, i woke up to realize that my blackberry's trackball didn't register scrolls to the left. It would roll to the left but, won't let me move to select any of the applications. After googling for some time, came upon this very useful guide @ BlackBerryInsight on cleaning the blackberry's trackball.

Had to remove the trackball fixture and take it apart to clean it. After putting everything together, it worked like a charm.

P.S: Take pictures if you are disassembling the trackball fixture. Otherwise putting everything back together can be pretty confusing.

Why Should I Care

Was there something more I could have done?
Or was I not meant to be the one?
Where's the life I thought we would share?
And should I care?

And will someone else get more of you?
Will she go to sleep more sure of you?
Will she wake up knowing you're still there?
And why should I care?

There's always one to turn and walk away
And one who just wants to stay
But who said that love is always fair?
And why should I care?

Should I leave you alone here in the dark?
Holding my broken heart
While a promise still hangs in the air
Why should I care?

-- Diana Krall

The Witness

"[with] All these promises that we make and we break.
Why is it, do you think, that people get married ?"

"Because we need a witness to our lives ???"

There's a billion people on the planet.
I mean, what does any one life really mean?

But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything -
the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things...
All of it. All the time, every day.

You're saying, "Your life will not go unnoticed, because I will notice it.
"Your life will not go unwitnessed, because I will be your witness."

-- Shall We Dance (2004)

Adblock Plus & Greasemonkey for Firefox 3 beta 5

If your Adblock Plus n Greasemonkey addons have stopped working after an upgrade to Firefox 3 beta 5, try the following:

• Adblock Plus: Install version 0.7.5.4 from here. It supports Fx 3 beta 5. The dev builds are available here.
  
• Greasemonkey: Install the latest dev builds from here. [greasemonkey-0.8.20080408.1.xpi was the one at the time of writing this post...]
  

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