Email being the absolute f*cking worst technology ever conceived, is pretty well established by this point. Still, I decided to make a listicle anyway, purely because it’s fun to complain about things.
Okay, so I have this thing with programming languages: Inconsistencies and stupid language design, they… how shall I put this? They bother me. One thing in particular that gets my gears turning is idiotic scoping rules.
So, this is a small write-up of my adventure of trying to virtualize an ancient Windows XP installation in VirtualBox. If you are only interested in the technical part, just scroll down to “The Solution”.
