Re:Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Is Now Available
by nikolay on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:27PM
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Thank you! Honestly, I never read HN on mobile devices, so, I wasn't aware of the issue, and I use Stylish for a dark theme and other enhancements on Chrome, which might be fixing some of the <pre /> issues as well.
Re:Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Is Now Available
by KGIII on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:09PM
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Oh, it is a horrible experience on mobile but only for that function. Well, and the coloration but I'm partially colorblind and accept that I'm not a priority.
It's like they did the whole site perfectly and then just screwed that up for no good reason. HN is otherwise perfect, as I'm not counting the colors. Those are okay until they use gray (I think, I am never actually sure) text.
Totally off topic:
I wasn't always colorblind. It happened with age, according to the eye doc. It is so strange never being certain you're seeing colors properly. I didn't realize I was colorblind until people kept pointing out that I was wrong. 'No, David. The curtains are blue, not black.' It led to some amusing confrontations.
Anyhow, other than that, HN is pretty much perfect on mobile.
Re:Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Is Now Available
by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:54PM
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I think I mentioned once in HN how I flashed a few times a home router, with a failed result each time (red led). Then my brother walked by and saved me from my misery telling me that the led is actually orange-greenish which means that the flashing was successful.
I had a support guy fly cross - country for the same reason (I was seeing red leds on a key switch while they were orange)
Notable enhancements in this release:
VM export to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI Classic) format
Automatic, unattended guest OS installation for Oracle VM VirtualBox Virtual Machines
Improved Virtual Machine Tools, including a new dynamic interface to manage Virtual Machine configuration and snapshot capabilities
New Global Tools handling
* Virtual Media Manager manages media attributes like size, location, type and description
* Host Network Manager simplifies managing corresponding networks and their attributes
GUI accessibility
* New GUI icons for VirtualBox on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Oracle Solaris and Mac OS X)
* Enhanced Virtual Machine Selector
* Extended audio settings, with the option to enable/disable audio input/output
* Snapshot Pane updates allow easier management of snapshot attributes, like name and description
Audio
* Device enumeration support for audio backends (optional)
* Support for host device callbacks (optional) and further enhancements
* HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads
Storage
* Support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks
* Support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe