To shell and back

VirtualBox 2.1 available

Installed VirtualBox 2.1 AMD64 for Ubuntu today, and it works wonderfully. It asked for my VMs to be upgraded to the new format, and did not cause any problems. Meanwhile, a slashdot discussion follows how VirtualBox now supports running 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts.

Via HackerNews: Nicest math book I own

Antonio Cangiano gives the The Princeton Companion to Mathematics a strong recommendation. Hmm, I should get it if I can. He also mentions paper quality, I just love paper quality. It gets the best out of typography.

Wikipedia: Banshee

Banshee used to be my favorite Music Player, until Songbird came along. I still like Banshee, but for some reason it is a bit unstable on my machine (Ubuntu 64-bit, 8.10). It maybe that I use Mono compiled from the SVN repos, but for whatever reason it crashes when I update my music library.

Again, I have not yet found enough time to dig deep into it. But Songbird works well for me, atleast for now. I would prefer to go back to Banshee soon, since I love to support Mono based stuff.

I had banshee as my google status message today, until a few people started asking Why Banshee. I decided to check up on Wikipedia, and found it could also mean “woman of the fairy mounds“. Well, it is no longer my IM status.

XKCD Today: Cuttlefish (boring)