Monthly Archives: November 2008

Footage of Brisbane’s mini-cyclone November 2008

This gives people a better idea of how insane the storm was and the ferocity of the wind. This appears to be a mini cyclone… Here’s the youtube url: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=skrnDGl1LxQ UPDATE: I’ve used http://savevid.com/ to host the video file locally … Continue reading

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How to boot Windows XP in 16 seconds? Use Linux.

Just mucking around with some opensource virtualisation. Booting winxp pro under Ubuntu Linux 8.10 in Virtualbox on a Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz. Would probably go faster if the virtual machine image was on a ram drive as well … Continue reading

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