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Let’s just Blame Windows.

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Adobe Premiere and Pho­toshop are a crit­ical part of the applic­a­tion set I use daily to pro­duce videos and online content. Therefore, I (actu­ally Microsoft) owns an Adobe Pro­duc­tion Premium to edit and cre­ate all my thegeekstories.com
Some months ago, I installed a beta of Adobe Sound­booth CS3. And a beta of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. In […]

Parallels 1884 Vista Quick Notes (and update)

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Down­load the 21Mb update to Par­al­lels (to build 1884)
Boot Win­dows XP to ensure all is OK before I install Vista. Win­dows XP “seems” to boot a little faster. Unable to quantify exactly how much.
Backup exist­ing 15Gb Win­dows XP .hdd, just in case. Cre­ate a new 15Gb image to install Vista into.
Pararl­lels settings:

Install into the fresh 15Gb image, 1024Mb […]

WindowsXP Reinstall

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

What a few days. My Win­dows XP install on the Dell has been unstable for a few months; and I thought I had man­aged to recover XP enough to have a stable plat­form. Unfor­tu­nately, on Fri­day night it finally exploded. Also two Out­look .pst files went west (thank good­ness for backups!). Com­pletely erased the hard […]