Disable touchpad on Ubuntu Linux

Quite annoyingly, I was unable to disable touchpad on laptop through the dedicated fn combination. Bit of googling brought results fast, here’s a simple script I use now for switching on and off.

Migrating from VMWare to VirtualBox

After years of using VMWare, I suddenly had to migrate to VirtualBox; I’ve been using VirtualBox for quite some time now, but not in the way I use VMWare.
First I thought it will be a short-lived trip, but now I’m happily stuck. I still had the image of VBox the way it was in the version 1.x in the head. What a blow it was to fully explore 4.x, in my case 4.0.6!