October 2013 – Ryan Hallman

Notes on Installing iFax in Hyper-V 2012

October 31, 2013

Our company wanted to test iFax to see if it was going to be a suitable replacement for RightFax, so our first thought was to load it up into Hyper-V. Failure ensued due to their prepackaged ISO not having the right drivers to get the installer going in Hyper-V.

These instructions might be useful if you’re looking to get test iFax’s software. Disclaimer: I have no idea how to get a Brooktrout card working in a virtual environment, so if you need to test that aspect of it, you might be better off getting some cheap hardware (something we ended up doing anyway).

To get iFax up and running in Hyper-V: Continue reading “Notes on Installing iFax in Hyper-V 2012”

My Experience With Ubuntu 13.10 on an Early 2013 Macbook Pro (10,2)

October 31, 2013

I’ve been having trouble finding information on compatibility between Ubuntu 13.10 and the last gen Macbook. Everything that I’ve read has either been “it works” or “it’s terrible and I hate Apple.”

So, needing (or wanting) new hardware, and having a chance to pickup a used Macbook Pro 13″ Retina for cheap, I took the plunge and…it works!

Continue reading “My Experience With Ubuntu 13.10 on an Early 2013 Macbook Pro (10,2)”

Fix Ubuntu Clock Randomly Changing

October 30, 2013

I noticed that whenever I went back and forth between my Windows 8 partition and my Ubuntu install, my clock would get all messed up. I thought it was because the time in my BIOS was lagging behind (like, a lot). It turns out that there’s a conflict since Linux systems store the time as UTC while Windows does something else.

The fix was pretty quick and easy: Continue reading “Fix Ubuntu Clock Randomly Changing”