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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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Vista RC1 OK on Parallels 1896.2 (and Acrobat 8)

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Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Developing systems in COBOL is the next major leap in Agile programming. Or maybe not. Returning to serious programming:.
First topic: Why Microsoft's Zune scares Apple to the core
"Apple faces the prospect of competing not with the Zune alone, but with a mighty Windows-Soapbox-Xbox-Zune industrial complex."
Speaking to a new XBox360 user on Friday, he stated that [...]

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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 [...]

Vista RC1 OK on Parallels 1896.2 (and Acrobat 8)

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Watching the Parallels web site, I noted that the engineers had posted some more info, and a later build. 1896.2 I don't know what the .2 means; probably that .1 wasn't quite right.
Waiting for a better video driver (to use up the 256Mb of the MacBook Pro, without resorting to Boot Camp)
Anyway:

Is Vista [...]

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 [...]

Gartner Agrees with nickhodge.com

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Windows Vista the last of its kind: Windows will go virtual, Gartner agrees with my assessment that the future of Windows is componentised, virtualized and smaller.
Gartner expects a significant update to Vista in late 2008 or 2009 that will add virtualisation (in the form of a component called a hypervisor) and a service partition.
You read [...]

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 [...]

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