Over the past two years I have had several contacts with virtualisation both at work and at home. At work I mostly used VMware Server (free) and VMware ESX (very expensive!) to manage test environments and offer services to employees. Privately I used Parallels to get some Windows stuff going on my Mac. Since installing [...]
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Today I had to work from home. Since my debacle with Vista (see below) I now run Ubuntu 8.04 on my work PC. VNC is enabled and I can now login to the work network via VNC with my Mac and work easily from home. And since Mac OS X is such a nice Unixy [...]
At least that is the case for me. I’ve been suffering for a couple of months now under the iron-handed rule of Vista (Business 64-bit) at my work PC. At some point in time it must have seemed like a good idea to me. But I certainly can’t remember why. The problems I have encountered [...]
Most of us IT geeks have the dire need to have more than one MAC/PC on our desktop. Appart from the nice line of LCD’s starting to create a natural barrier to all around you, your desk gets cluttered by mice and keyboards. Hand-up who hasn’t had the problem of typing on a KBD while [...]
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Ever wanted to take your PC with you in your shirt pocket? Well, there’s a really nice way of doing this. Put your OS on a USB Stick and just plug it into any ‘ol PC and away you go. Ingredients: – Mac OS X… nope, sorry folks maybe in the next millenium – Windows… [...]