Back around Thanksgiving I installed Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva Linux virtual machines on VMware Fusion. This article has the screen shots from the Mandriva install. I’m running VMware Fusion 1.1 on my MacBook running Leopard. Mandriva officially calls it’s free Linux Mandriva Linux One 2008.
The VMware portion of the setup was straight-forward since Mandriva [...]
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Another year comes to a close faster than expected. I supposed to do a year end wrap-up or predictions post but I won’t. I’ll stick to the program and just talk about recent stuff. Plenty of wrap-ups and predictions elsewhere.
Microsoft released Windows XP SP3 RC1 and after my success installing the Vista SP1 Release [...]
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I wanted to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server as a virtual machine under Parallels on my iMac. Server has a couple of differences from the desktop version. The first is that the Graphical User Interface (GUI) isn’t installed which is my primary reason for wanting it over the desktop version. It’s all command [...]
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I was in Staples before Christmas and they had the Seagate FreeAgent Go external drives on sale. I’ve never bought a 2.5″ external drive before because of concerns over reliability. But at about fifty cents a gig and the small size I decided to get the 80GB version. The small size would make it easier [...]
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I knew I was liking Windows Home Server (WHS) too much. Microsoft has posted knowledge base article 946676 which describes a potential file corruption issue with WHS. Affected software includes:
Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Money 2007
SyncToy 2.0 beta
Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks may be affected
Torrent [...]
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Not much happening this holiday week so just some spam numbers and links.
Spam Counts
My primary mailbox (which manages multiple addresses) didn’t get any new spam messages and the 30-day count is down to four from last week’s seven.
My more public GMail address received a bunch of spam messages this past week, all of which [...]
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