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The most usable (for me anyway) VirtualBox release for mac is out. I just downloaded 1.6.0 from VirtualBox.org . I was finally able to load the virtualbox additions. Check out my previous blog to read about the issues I faced. Here is a quick recap of the issues: I could not use my full screen real estate which was 1440x900. The max resolution I could get was 1152x864. Unable to mount my shared folder. Cannot ssh from master OS (mac OS). First I am glad that VBox for mac has finally come out of beta. Just the fact that there is a release lifts the spirits a bit. Coming to my first issue, I am now able to make full use of my screen. It did not work out of the box, but the tweaks I had to do were small enough to not make me grumpy. I installed 1.6.0 on my macbook pro. Started my Gentoo guest OS. Loaded the virtualbox additions iso to the virtual cdrom by doing Devices > Install Guest Additions... Mounted the cdrom from Gentoo by doing mount /mnt/cdrom as root. Executed /mnt/cdrom

I was finally able to clean up the code and add some comments to my pet project YAGTD which stands for Yet another getting things done. See my previous blog for more details. The code is available here if anyone is interested to modify for their specific needs. To try out the application go to http://yagtd.appspot.com/

The short version If you are having problems with elisa not playing your local media files (see https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/957 and https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/961 ) then you can fix it by editing ~/.elisa/elisa.conf and changing gstreamer:gst_metadata_client to gstreamer:gst_metadata . That is all and it works! The long version Ever since I heard about elisa , I have been trying to get it to work as my media center. It was well designed and the vector graphics are awesome. It plays music, videos and displays pictures, and has several plug-ins to play online music and youtube videos etc. You can even get cover arts from amazon from with in the software. But there is just one problem. It could never play my local media. Neither movies, nor music and not even photos. I gave v0.3.3 of elisa a try. It did not play my personal media. I thought, well it is still in development, so why not wait for the next release. I did not even take a look at the logs. Then

Why is it so funny. Let's go over it one more time. Who do you think is better, the mac or PC (with windows vista)? Let the games begin, but before we start I am neither a mac fan nor a windows fan, I am all for linux ;) Mac: 1 PC: 0 Well mac does not need to get all excited. Seems like mac was having problems showing the above video on a mac. You might want to stop the video after a while, otherwise you might want to kill someone Mac:1 PC:1 Moving along, we have a series of pro-mac videos Mac: 2 PC:1 Mac:3 PC:1 Mac:4 PC:1 Mac:5 PC:1 Mac:6 PC:1 Let's even out the odds a little bit. This is hilarious and I have to minus 5 for mac for the following video and cannot raise anything for PC since nothing good has been said about it. Mac:1 PC:1 Finally the winner is Mac:0 PC:0 Neither...