My favourite virtualization app has gone into another round. Get the new version 2.0 here. I’ve been on version 1.6 (Ubuntu 8.04.1) for a while now and must say it is a good and stable product for desktop virtualization. It works on all platforms (Mac, Linux, Solaris, Windows,…).
From previous posts you will know I’m a big fan of the VI editor. But…. vi has several really annoying “features” like using arrow keys when in edit mode. Anybody who’s done that will know what I mean. I’ve lived with that for years now and only today I find a small snippet that said [...]
After a long (LONG!!!!) battle I’ve finally managed to set-up my WordPress server. These are the first tentative steps. Bit by bit I will migrate the “old” RapidWeaver site to here. Currently the site is only visible under www.erlewein.de. The other sites (www.erlewein.org and www.erlewein.net) remain on the original blog. Once all work is done [...]
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… [...]