The Tivo is a modern marvel, you can easily timeshift your favorite shows and watch them on your schedule. It’s all smooth sailing until your 40GB hard drive isn’t able to hold all those Seinfield episodes you keep meaning to watch. What’s a user to do?
VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product that allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single PC without rebooting. It is very similar to VMware but the licensing model is somewhat different. In addition to providing an Open Source Edition (OSE) with native installers for Windows and OS X, there is excellent support for Linux hosts. In my environment with Ubuntu 7.04, this is what I ended up doing to get this installed.
It looks like Walgreen’s will be getting into the movie-burning business using something called Qflix.. The iPod has taught consumers that the movie is not the media; in fact, movies can be represented as digital files on a computer without any media involved whatsoever. The digital movie burning kiosk is an ideal technology to bridge the gap between the media age and the era of digital delivery.