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Use BootCamp Assistant to carve out a partition for Ubuntu first.

Sounds like a problem with GRUB, the VM's BIOS can't find anything to boot. You might try booting off an Ubuntu ISO and take a look at your disk. If your data all seems to be there try looking up...

Reports I've heard involving Macbook Airs and Linux involved cooked CPUs and hardware replacement.

What was the output from Dangertux's command?

Your system looks clean, I doubt you have a rootkit.

It's really not trying to be. Those are all around devices, this seems pretty specifically built for consuming media from Amazon. Analysts are saying Amazon is selling these at a loss, and they're...

It's because Linux is significantly different than Windows, and has an insignificant market share.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by... apathy.

Apple started allowing virtualization of the server OS a few versions back, and the restriction that has carried over is the host machine must be a Mac.

As for the OP's questions, you'll want to...

No company loves open source, sorry but that's the truth. Lots of companies love selling support for open source projects, but that's hardly the same. Open source code and profit don't exactly go...

Actually they started using it in 2002, then hired the developer and bought the rights to the code in 2007. Last I knew, OS X was still running a fairly stock version of CUPS.


How is it...

Don't forget about Webkit, the rendering engine powering Chrome, Android and WebOS.

...why on earth would you try some of that horrible nonsense? You should be able to hold down the Opt (Alt) key at boot and select the boot device from there.

Exceptionally good "hackers" don't get caught until they do something more public than the initial breach of security. There are much more significant breaches occurring regularly at more important...

Why not boot from a USB drive and install from that?

Convenience of syncing and customization. There's definitely something to be said for having one environment you know in and out across all machines.

No.

Windows ME didn't, and it was an unmitigated disaster. Microsoft has the corporate and consumer worlds right where it wants them - buying Office. The vast majority of their income is from...

Second hand, from an Apple tech I know who dealt with a Linux shop that bought a whole bunch of MBAs, then sent them in for repairs months later with cooked CPUs.



Probably true... under OS X. ...

You won't get very good battery life, multitouch isn't nearly as good, you're liable to cook the CPU...

Even if everything works splendidly it's going to be physically hotter and have less battery...

Don't run Ubuntu on a Macbook Air...

There's a couple things to note about this. First off, this is not how Apple wants people to upgrade their OS. It's in their best interest for people to use and be aware of the Mac App Store, since...

Cookies save bits of information (normally login and session stuff) for a website on your local computer. Cookie tracking involves reading all your cookies and using them to determine what websites...

Blessing the partition is just a marker on the disk that EFI checks for. There's no harm, no risk.

Patent policies? As in defending their patents? :rolleyes:

Of the consumer security jungle, would be a more apt description. It's not surprising - Apple has implemented all the best ideas from BSD with their own spin.

Believe it or not Apple does a major release about once every two years, and they recently dropped their upgrade prices from $129 to $29. Obviously a far cry from every 6 months from free, but also...

Apple is pretty notorious for slow security responses on OSX (and sometimes iOS), I think it's part of their preference for having a complete answer to a situation before they say anything about it...