Category Archives: Windows 8

Damn you Microsoft and your forced reboot! HOW DARE YOU!

Posted on 2013/04/04 by RedNectar Chris Welsh

I’ve just lost 30mins (at least) of work.  I was was in the middle of doing a complicated install of a virtual machine (I was installing FreeBSD on a QEMU virtual machine) and documenting each step.  All of a sudden, … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Install – What a ridiculous product key

Posted on 2013/01/08 by RedNectar Chris Welsh

Not Happy. Since I have a Mac, I had to buy the System Builder version of Windows 8 to legally run it in a Virtual Machine. I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with … Continue reading →

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