Find our previously released workaround for initialization issues here. CPU VT-X/AMD-V Issue After configuring a dual core virtual machine and trying to start you may encounter a message box indicating: Hyper-V launch failed; Either VMX not present or not enabled in BIOS. Hyper-V launch failed; at least one of the processors in the system does [...]

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Are you one of those lonesome people who tried to access the contents of a DMG image under Windows? Yes, there are several ways like converting to ISO with programs like Magic-Iso or mounting with Mac-Drive. All these solutions are nice, handy and well… expensive… Simply using 7-zip is in my opinion the easiest way, [...]

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History VirtualBox is an open source virtualization software. Originally it has been developed by a german company named Innotek, which has been acquired by SUN Microsystems in 2008. SUN Microsystems in turn has been acquired by ORACLE in 2010. Innotek originally collaborated with Connectix on Virtual PC – a virtualization software targeting the Mac OS [...]

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Abtract Have you also been trying to find a really nice screensaver for your Windows machine. There are so many nice screensavers for the Mac, but for the Windows world you can’t find them. What we found While searching for nice screensavers we came accross this collection of free of charge and open source screensavers [...]

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I. Abstract One of the obstacles with Windows in earlier times was: you could not simply change the language from say german to english or german to french. For me as a german loving the languages this always was a big prob. I saw the easiness of changing languages under Linux and wondered. Now with [...]

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An update that has been distributed yesterday is likely to be the cause for sudden blue screens on Windows Vista 64bit. The yesterday update forces the user to restart, but after restarting, Windows Vista64 customers report that their system would not boot anymore. Instead a blue screen of death was shown. Although the problem should [...]

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Abstract Running news clients with the built-in Windows Firewall, you will usually get fullspeed when accessing the usenet. Problems occur when you use All-in-One Internet-Firewall-and-Virus-Scan solutions. Since Virus-Scanners and Firewalls tend to scan all the network traffic with heuristic algorithms, scanning may slow down internet (and usenet) access. The following article demonstrates how to configure [...]

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english As a dualbooter you are often confronted with the problem that you just saved a file on the other system. While being on OS X this is not a too big problem since you can at least access those NTFS (read only) and Fat32 (read/write support) drives. But being confronted with Microsoft Windows you [...]

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