VBox Screen Resolution Blues

VirtualBox is nice but often it can be a pain, especially when it comes to getting the Guest-addition installed, using a shared folder, or establishing a host-guest network. Although, to be fair, the latter is my gripe with Backtrack R3. In this case, after installing guest additions the virtual display would only display in 4:3 resolutions. I typically work from my Mac air and the scale mode was an eyesore, so I convinced my BT5R3 instance that 16:10 is real and it should listen. Below is the bash script that runs on startup.

#!/bin/bash
xrandr --newmode "1440x900_60.00"  106.50  1440 1528 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VBOX0 1440x900_60.00
xrandr --output VBOX0 --mode 1440x900_60.00

Credit goes to nidlatube.

Pens

I have a slight obsession. When I was 17, I got my second job working in the copy center at an OfficeMax. Amidst the sterile smell of A4 copy paper, the bright florescent lights, and the buzzing sound of a fax machine, I developed a thing for pens. I was responsible for tidying up office supplies and each night I would walk down the isles thinking, "What is new from Cross this week? Ooh, this PhD writes differently." And when the store closed, so did my lust for the ink-writers.

As time passed, I had the good fortune to discover the glory of a .38mm Pilot G-2. For a while, I would use it without thinking. Always reaching for it whenever I had the opportunity. I even carried a notebook around to justify writing with the thing. After spending around $50 at jetpens.com, I'm still trying to decide which pen I love most between my EF Lamy Safari, .03mm Pilot Hi-Tec-C and a .03 Zebra Sarasa. I love them all but the novelty of a fountain pen is too appealing.

But like all great tools, they can only compliment the mind and talent of the artist.

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Honest Introduction

Hello, Chris Craig here.

Normally, this kind of talk would be reserved for the ink in a leather bound jornal or a Moleskine notebook for the Starbucks visiting Liberal Arts major, but instead I place them here. I have no idea what content will fill the pages of this blog be it technical paper reviews, programming hacks, links to a github account, or bits of introspection. Regardless, I hope its worth reading.