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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Here is a clever solution to the problem of trying to remember all of your passwords, settings, configurations and so forth when converting your current OS into a VM: backup your old installation and restore it into a clean VM. There may be problems with drivers and such, since the VM "hardware" may not work with all the drivers you have installed, but it sure looks like it could be a timesave.
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Reinstalling one of my development workstations with Kubuntu as the primary operating system, and thought I'd take a shot at using VMWare and guest OSes for the other work I might have to do. I found a great HOWTO here on the Ubuntu site: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server
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Andy Ihnatko writes a guest column for InfoWorld that's a great insight into the mind of Mac users and interesting speculation on what we saw, or didn't see, at the recent WWDC keynote. Leopard's top-secret secrets.

(InfoWorld) - When you watch a Steve Jobs keynote from home, you only get about two-thirds of the value. For one, there's usually complimentary orange juice and danish on the way into the hall. For another, you get to go hyper-nerd obsessive on every observable detail.


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