175 DEGREE 160 INCH CURVED GAMING SCREEN!!!

It is really a stunning news for Hardcore game lovers that the Swedish company Norman Design is offering a very great Formula 1 Simulation game in a curved screen which was ever released before.

It is not necessary for Formula 1 racers to go to the circuit and practise for the race. They can now sit back in their home for taking lap practises which gives them real experience of driving with an original car in the circuit.(It sounds really cool!!!)

This simulator comes with the 160 inch curved screen, chair attached to it, a full system with powerful computer capable of running the special software and other stuffs like steering, accelerators, breaks etc. This simulator is portable, weighing 49.8 kg(110 pounds). It is priced 114,000 dollars for the entire simulation set and 28,500 dollars for the display alone. The company also provides lease option so that the simulator can be used on a contract basis. In near future, every game is expected to chose its screen shape, giving real gaming experience. 

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ORACLE VIRTUAL BOX

Most of you will have a dual boot and work with 2 operating systems. To do so, you need to partition the drives, allocate memory for each OS and establish your need. This dual boot option gives you  a provision to work with more than 1 OS. But

with this dual boot option, you can work with only one OS at one time. Also if you need to share some files between different OS in the system, it is possible only by copying the desired file from one OS in USB, CD or using other medium. Direct file transfer between the OS is not possible(But now it is possible. For eg. in Ubuntu 11.04, one drive is shared among both the OS so that mere copy-paste can be used to share files)

Oracle Corporation has developed an application called Oracle Virtual Box. In this, you can load any number of OS(called Guest OS because these OS are installed in addition to the existing OS which is called Host OS) in it and work with many OS. What makes the difference with this Virtual Box is that, it runs the desired OS in a separate window as an application. 

linux OS in windows 7 OS

Suppose for eg. if you wanna run an application say MS word, you double click it to get the MS word and continue with your work. The same concept is applied for the OS. Virtual Box will have a list of installed OS in it. What you wanna do to work with an OS is just click the OS. OS will be loaded in a new window as an application.     

I use ubuntu linux using Oracle Virtual Box... 

Virtual Box Application in which i've added ubuntu linux

Like this you can add several OS in this list by clicking on New below File menu.

Each Guest OS in VM can be configured independently. Guest OS can communicate with Host OS through a number of mechanisms like common clipboard, shared folder, virtualized network facility.

Also Guest OS can communicate among each other if configured.

shared folder option for file sharing

All the resources like pendrive, printer etc. can be used by the Guest OS exactly like the Host OS, even internet. You can browse on all the active Guest OS along with Host OS simultaneously. :-)

This is all i have tried and i know about Virtual Box so far. You are welcome to discuss about Virtual Box further. Thanks for reading my blog :-) Comment on my blog... Stay tuned for my next post... :-)