Hyperion Reactor The Middle Child of History

The default way a VirtualBox machine connects to the network is using NAT. Since it’s connected to a private network, you can connect to the outside world but other machines cannot contact you (this holds true even for the host machine). NAT is the easiest and most lightweight way of connecting your virtual machine to the network. VirtualBox also supports others ways of connecting to the network such as a bridge adaptor.

This should fix issues with making MacOSX talk to Ubuntu (Samba)

1. Make sure that you are not currently connected to any Samba or Windows (SMB/CIFS) servers and that you do not have any Samba or Windows-related error messages open.
2. Open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
3. At the prompt, type: sudo pico /etc/nsmb.conf
4. Press Return.
5. Enter your password when prompted, then press Return again.

To disable the dashboard:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

To enable the dashboard

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

Dont forget to after running the command.

killall Dock

I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Apple's latest and possibly the greatest product to hit the market, two days after it was launched. No doubt it was way faster than my PowerBook 17" with a gig of ram. But is it really a good idea to move to the MacBook? I am not a fan of first generation products, but on the other hand Apple has never release a product that wasn't production worthy.

Ever wanted to know how many cycles your Apple Powerbook battery has done?

ioreg -l | grep Capacity

Most Powerbooks should work well upto 300-500 cycles.