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Don’t expect me to start reviewing products, but I think it’s only fair that when I find something I like that I give it a quick nod. We recently picked up a new Toshiba 9″ Portable DVD Player (model SD-P1900) from Best Buy for use on our Santa Barbara vacation. So far I quite enjoy it. When I was comparison shopping, I felt that the color representation and picture quality seemed superior to other models I saw that advertised higher resolution. I could best describe the picture quality on other models as “muddy” whereas this one was smooth and clear.

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It’s summer and that means vacation time. We just returned from Sequoia National Forest. You can find a couple pics on the family blog. We visited the world’s largest tree: General Sherman and the Crystal Cave.

I’ve been using Microsoft Virtual PC for years and love it, but there’s a new kid on the virtualization block that’s caught my eye; VirtualBox. To be fair, I haven’t tried the new Virtual PC 2007 just recently RTM‘d, but from what I’ve heard the new features aren’t all that revolutionary. I should also point out that I’ve never been a fan of VMWare, finding it a little bloated and (despite the marketing) doesn’t seem to perform as fast as other offerings. On the other hand, I’ve found VirtualBox to be easy to use, it has good support for guest OS’s (in our case Linux) and by my account, performs very well.

I’m not an avid Linux user (in fact, I’m quite a novice), but I occasionally get enough curiosity to try out a distribution. This time around, it was reading about PCLinuxOS 2007 that got me interested. I decided to give it a try using VirtualBox and much to my delight I had it up and running well in less than 30 minutes. If you’re also curious about Linux, trying it on a virtual machine is an easy way to get a little exposure. I thought my experience may be helpful to others, so here’s what I did to get it working:

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I almost wet myself when I saw some of the first behind-the-scenes footage of the new Indiana flick. I can’t believe we’re getting another Indiana Jones film. I can remember skipping school to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Hopefully there will be more of the video diaries like this one highlighting the first day of shooting:

Official Indiana Jones Website