stoolpigeon's Journal: The Macbook Pro

I am getting more used to my Apple Laptop.

It still makes me crazy when I need to hook it to external displays. I wanted to show a video to some friends the other night and thought I would just connect the mac to my tv via hdmi. Couldn't get it to work. Crazy. I just switched to my PC that is always connected and downloaded the video there.

This post I am writing though from inside a VirtualBox instance running Fedora 20. It took me a little bit to get it working properly but now it is pretty good. I need to figure out how to get the mac to connect to the virtual machine so I can run the vm like a server.

I don't know how often I'll use the vm but I like having it. Sometimes it feels good just to get back into Linux and have a break from the Mac way.

I've used VirtBox on my Dell

[smittyoneeach]

. . .because the 4GB of RAM on this old MacBook Pro just ain't hacking it.

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[stoolpigeon]

Mine has 16GB - and the instance still gets cranky sometimes even after I've thrown a lot of resources at it. And I don't think it is Fedora - it's something to do with the virtualization. But it is good enough.

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[smittyoneeach]

I went out on http://emperorlinux.com/ [emperorlinux.com] and had some serious lust in my heart. Quad core laptop w/32Gb RAM &c. I just can't spend $3.5k on something unless I have serious work lined up to justify it.

Moo

[Chacham]

Does the adapter being passive or active have anything to do with it?

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[stoolpigeon]

Don't know.