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Category Archives: Dual Boot

Installing Synergy2 In Ubuntu and Windows

Monday, June 1, 2009

Having a laptop and a desktop is very useful because it provides another display. With the same mouse and keyboard, you can manage both the laptop and the desktop using Synergy2. Synergy2 is a free and open source application that allows us to share the same mouse and keyboard across multiple workstations. According to the [...]

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Recovering a crashed Windows on Dual Boot

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Having previously configured my laptop for dual boot, I was satisfied with the way things were running. My wife would use XP. We’d enabled GRUB to save the default using the Start Up Manager, so we could hibernate in order to switch users and operating systems.
All was fine until Windows said “ENOUGH!” and bit the [...]

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