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Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 2: Vista Sidebar Gadget

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

What an interesting day with Windows Vista. It is certainly "polished" than Windows 2000 and XP; things seems to be placed in logical areas. Also took the opportunity to install Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta, which worked flawlessly - all running successfully in Parallels! Two computers in one is a major time saver.
It was also time [...]

Parallels Dimension

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Rarely does software become easier to use, dramatically change, add features and gets faster. Parallels rocks.

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Parallels Idleness
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Vista RC1 OK on Parallels 1896.2 (and Acrobat 8)

Parallels Idleness

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Post cup noodling around doing not much at all and decided to download the trial version of Parallels Workstation for Debian Linux. After some aptitude fixing packages that were not installed; finally managed to get Parallels booting.
Next step: attempt to get the X11 appearing from the client application (installed on the Debian server) to [...]

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Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Panasonic does a deal with Connexion, specifically so you can GSM/GPRS whilst Qantas flights.
Peter Jackson to direct "The Hobbit" movie? Oh the horror!
Parallels for Mac is now at build 1910. For those who want to keep their feet in both worlds, you can run Windows XP and Vista at the same time.
Vista RC1++ (alias [...]

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 [...]

Fun Day Ahead

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Parallels supports Vista.

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Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 2: Vista Sidebar Gadget
Parallels Dimension
Parallels Idleness
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FreeDOS and Parallels

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

File this into the why basket.

FreeDOS works with Parallels. So now for the full 1987-1992 retro-experience, the MacBook Pro can learn about HIMEM.SYS, FAT32 and other evil that Windows has shielded us from.
How to:

Download FreeDOS ISO image
With Parallels, create a new VM (virtual machine), Hard drive
Set the CD as the boot device, and select the [...]

Uptime: 22 days. And I run Windows XP SP2.

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I am not a Mac fan-boy. Been there, done that. And to be truthful, I think I am a little too old for zealotry. The innocent dogmatism of youth has been replaced with that pragmatism to the point of pessimism middle age.
My 15" MacBook Pro runs MacOS X 10.4.7. The last time I [...]

Virtually Emulating First Loves

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

In an effort to re-ignite my first love whilst on my leave of absence - I've been looking for a good TRS-80 emulator to rekindle the flames of technical desire. Also over the last 4 weeks I've also had a small "side project" watching the goings on in the desktop virtualization space, especially on the [...]

One Mac Head, Two Minds

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

An excellent article from the New York Times: Weighing a Switch to a Mac. Interesting, as it goes through the two options: BootCamp or Parallels.
You don't need to leave your Windows-mind behind when switching. Now that I am disconnected from the Adobe-mind, I rarely use Windows applications. But then again, I've not really done [...]

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