Revisiting(mpd) I have this problem when using alsa (default) output: it blocks other audio sources. Playing a video in vlc while listening to music, gives us this flak: Potential ALSA version problem: VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any). Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this [...]
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How to convert a Virtual PC drive, to a VirtualBox drive
January 26th, 2010 
Wez Virtual PC was one of the finer VM hosts for it’s time, until Microsoft bought it over in 2003, it isn’t as cool any more. Especially since they removed the printer port support, as I posted here. No jokes. VirtualBox now supports Virtual PC .vhd drives, so I created a new VirtualBox machine, added the [...]
My disk is already mounted or busy, but I don't see it!
January 17th, 2010 Wez A quick tip on fixing this problem: drive suddenly disappeared? When you browse it you get a ‘/dev/sda1 is already mounted or busy’ error? Boot the Ubuntu Live CD and enter the friendly terminal. List your drives to get the device name for the problem drive, match it up by size and partition list: sudo [...]
