THUSA was recently awarded the contract to take over the Sugar Milling Research Institute’s(SMRI) IT infrastructure. THUSA will be analysing and gathering information over the next few months before making recommendations for improvements that will take the Institute into the future by improving their performance, cutting their costs and hopefully their energy consumption. 

THUSA are very pleased to announce that they were recently awarded the contract to manage and support the Sugar Milling Research Institutes IT infrastructure. 

I recently decided to try VirtualBox because I wanted an alternative to VMware Server 2.0 which I find to be clunky and buggy compared with the VMware 1.x series.  After a couple of hours of fiddling with VirtualBox and an Ubuntu Jaunty guest – I am very happy with how nicely VirtualBox works.

Particularly, I am pleased with how the graphics driver works once you have installed the “Guest Additions” which are the equivalent on VMware tools, but *much* simpler to installer.

This is what I did: