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Things to try when VirtualBox networking messes up

This is really a note-to-self but it might help other people too.
I have two network interfaces in my Ubuntu guest (on OS X 10.4 host), one NAT, one host-only.
Sometimes one of them doesn’t get an IP address — in ifconfig it has an inet6 address but not an inet address.
Today I tried
sudo dhclient eth1
and it [...]

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2010 03 26 Andrew Tips Comments (0)

MacBook keyboard hacks for # (hash/pound/numbersign)

One of the few annoying things about my oldish MacBook Pro is its keyboard, for example a few unresponsive keys, but particularly the lack of a # key. It’s a UK keyboard, and has £ for shift-3, and # is hidden in alt-3 (not labelled).
This is fine in native desktop apps, but less fine in [...]

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2009 11 07 Andrew Tips Comments (0)