Inside the mind of a nine-year-old file sharer

Torrentfreak interviews a nine-year-old girl about filesharing and P2P.

TF. So you’re sure that it’s ok to copy it? What do you think about copying?

- I suppose it’s not ok to copy but people copied it off her
site so she just copies theirs. It’s like, you’re copying my t-shirt so
i’m copying you on shoes.

TF. Ok, so a bit like copying school work?….Hmm….ok, let’s
talk about copying on the computer again. When you started using
LimeWire, did anyone ever mention that if you did certain things you
might be breaking some laws?

- Why would they put it [music] on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?

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VirtualBox - actually usable PC virtualization

I've been using VirtualBox to run a virtual Windows XP PC on my Ubuntu Linux system. I have always found virtualization software like Qemu or VMWare to be a bit fiddly to install or (once you get the thing working) slower than a peg-legged tortoise doing Tai-chi.

VirtualBox is free, open source (there is a commercial version with a few extra features) and will let you run a variety of guest operating systems on top of Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. It is also fast. Even on my rubbish home Athlon it still runs fast enough to browse the web, run MS access and play a few (older) games.

Desktop integration is very well handled and you can either run the entire desktop in a window on the host PC or let programs run as if they were native apps in their own windows.