![]() In a Virtual Machine, you should also disable power management and the screen saver, since they will cause trouble and you already got these features on your host. It is a similar process in other browsers. In Chrome, click the Spanner, then Tools, Extensions. In Firefox, click on Tools, Add-ons and search for them. These are available for most browsers, even for Google Chrome. These two will make your internet browsing much faster and will suppress the worst of the web. While I am on the security complaints topic, you can make your internet browsing a lot more pleasant by installing a couple of add-ons called Adblock Plus and Ghostery. Now when you reboot the VM again, things should be honky dory. Right click and select Open Terminal Here. Open the File System browser and click VBoxAdditions. ![]() To make it work properly, you also need to install the guest additions, so that you can resize the screen, make the mouse move smoothly, share files with the host and make sound work.Ĭlick on the top Virtualbox menu bar Devices and Install Guest Additions. Your system will now run a hundred times faster. When you log in, select the XFCE desktop in the round little thingy to the right of your user name. That lot will ensure that you can use the system for software development as well. $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential xubuntu-desktop Once you have Ubuntu up and running and experience its sluggishness, you'll be permanently cured of this version of Linux in no time.Ĭlick the lens at the top left, search for a 'terminal' and install some fixes: Boot up and select the ISO image file you downloaded from Canonical and let it go with all the defaults. Select Ubuntu Linux for the type, size the disk as 30GB and allocate 1GB RAM to it. Go to and download the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu desktop edition. So here, I deliberately use the bad version and then repair it. Of course, you can avoid half the hassle by installing Xubuntu to begin with and not Ubuntu, but most people select the default download and then they are disappointed with the performance and don't know how to fix it. However, Linux is Linux is Linux - so it can be fixed without too much trauma, by switching to the XFCE desktop. Anybody that needs FIPS compliance, should use Red Hat Fedora Linux. The result is that Ubuntu is a total no-no for government users, lawyers, doctors and the like. The only difference is that in Ubuntu, the spyware is deliberately installed, though it can be deactivated with a dozen or so clicks of the mouse, it doesn't deactivate everything. Ubuntu now is really a spyware system just like that other legacy system when it is infected with viruses and junkware. The Ubuntu desktop also presents a serious security risk in its default configuration, since the Lens sends all your local and remote search activities to various third parties. Gnome/Unity however, is the Win8 of Linux at this stage of its development and is much unloved. I like my rotating desktop cube and wobbly windows, but on slower systems, I use the simpler XFCE or LXDE. Ubuntu used to be quite a nice system, but it seems to have regressed terribly and is now almost unusably slow and clunky due to the Unity/Gnome desktop. It has been a few years since I last used Ubuntu Linux and since some of my students are using it, I decided to install it on Virtualbox and see what the fuss is all about. In by 8am and out 30 minutes later - probably less than the time I would have spent looking for parking at the main test centre and well worth the 15 minute drive to get there. Insurance (3rd party UAE and Buraimi) = 750 Dh The test then took only a few minutes.įor the exhaust test, the vehicle is put on a dynamometer, but since the big Dodge is all wheel drive it always just climbs off the machine, so they test it at idle, which is probably not much use. I had my car serviced at the dealer the week before, so I left the service papers on the front seat. They open at 8am and I was first in line. This year, I went to a small test centre in Al Foah, a village on the outskirts of the city instead. The Al Ain Traffic Department has a large test centre, driving school and registry, which is always overcrowded and getting a vehicle processed there can take half a day if all the Dust Devils are smiling kindly upon you. My own vehicle is a young and sprightly 2004 Dodge Durango 5.7 litre V8, which does 0 to 100km/h in about 7s, uses only 14 litres per 100km in fuel and cruises at 120km/h at slightly more than idle speed. ![]() As an expat in the UAE, it doesn't make economic sense to buy a fancy new car if you have no idea how long you are going to be here.
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