A Frustrating Journey
As October begins so does my two week break from my day job, Long before the word "stay cation" became popular my idea of a perfect vacation was one with no plans or clocks. This trail log covers the Kindle Fire, my experience syncing with SpiderOak potential vacation projects. Read the rest »
The Team Fusion blog has an article about optimizing Vista on VMware Fusion 2. Since it’s from the VMware folks it’s titled as VMware specific, but it’s appropriate for any Vista virtual machine. Suggestions include: Disable System Restore Disable Screen Saver Optimize Power Management for Virtual Machine Disable Windows Sidebar Disable Remote Management Run Windows Disk Defragmentation Utilities OPTIONAL: Change to Classic UI Disabling system restore is something I hadn’t considered although I do severely limit the disk space it’s given. I like the option of bein able to roll [...] Read the rest »
Last night I decided to see how OpenSUSE installed on VMware Fusion. I figured it would be a good way to kill a couple hours while watching TV. No such luck. I managed to make it all the way through the install but it died in the final phase where it does the hardware scan. Restarting the VM in Failsafe mode allowed me to resume the installation but with the same result. I’m not the only one who’s encountered the problem and this article indicates it’s a problem with the [...] Read the rest »
While Vista isn’t new on the Quest I did add a new flavor, Windows Vista Home Premium. At $100 less than Vista Ultimate it seems to be the version to get. There are only a things Ultimate provides over Home Premium including Windows Complete Backup & Restore, Windows Fax and Scan, and Bitlocker disk encryption. I don’t care about any of those but there is one thing that Windows Vista Home Premium won’t give me, and that’s Remote Access through Windows Home Server. I’m installing this in a virtual machine [...] Read the rest »
Along with Ubuntu and Mandriva I recently installed a Fedora 8 virtual machine under VMware Fusion. I’m installing Fedora 8 on VMware Fusion 1.1 which is running on my 13″ MacBook. The VMware Wizard runs just as it did for Ubuntu and Mandriva so you can see the screen shots in those posts. The only difference was in the choice of guest OS. I picked Redhat as the Linux to install since Fedora itself wasn’t a choice. Once the Fedora 8 ISO image I was using booted the Fedora install [...] Read the rest »
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 is included as one of the available guest OS’s in the setup wizard. The screen shots from the VMware wizard are shown below. (Click the any thumbnail for the full size image.) When [...] Read the rest »
I installed Ubuntu 7.04 under Parallels back in April and upgraded it recently. I run VMware Fusion on my MacBook which I was traveling with over Thanksgiving so I decided to install Ubuntu 7.10 under VMware to compare with Parallels. I’m running VMware Fusion 1.1, which is the latest version, on OS X 10.5.1 which is also the latest version. I downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO file from ubuntu.com and started the Create New Virtual Machine wizard in VMware Fusion. The installation is straight-forward and the wizard is self-explanatory so [...] Read the rest »
VMware as released VMware Fusion 1.1 VM software for the Mac. The software now fully supports Leopard. Additional new OS support includes 32 and 64-bit Vista along with 64-bit Windows XP. There’s over two dozen improvements and fixes listed in the release notes. VMware also released a beta version of their VMware Importer. This can be used to convert a Parallels virtual machine into a VMware Fusion virtual machine. The VMware Importer can import Parallels 2.5 and 3.0 VMs that are running Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista [...] Read the rest »
[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.] It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used and favorite apps. I’ll start with the assumption that the Apple apps in iLife ’08 and iWork ’08 along with Aperture 1.5 will work with Leopard either in their current form or with updates [...] Read the rest »
Yesterday I wrote about my 10 Most Used Mac Apps according to Wakoopa. I was a little surprised by some of the apps that showed up on the list and a few apps I really like didn’t show up in the top 10. So these are the apps I wished were on, or expected to show up in, the top 10 list. In reverse order this time. 10. Quicken for Mac (aff) – I wouldn’t call this a favorite. It came with my first Mini so I used it. I [...] Read the rest »