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Links for 2008-08-12 through 2008-08-13

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Links

Links for 2008-08-12 through 2008-08-13:

Utternerd.org | Matt Freitag - The Utternerd (24/7 Office CSS too) - Lots of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episodes
Tax Smears - If you received an email from Camp McCain stating that "Obama will raise your taxes", you need to read this.
One Man’s Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Vinyl - Thousands [...]

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Running a virtualized Mac

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Macintosh

VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta 2 is out and it lets you run Mac OS X Server (not client) in a virtual machine. It took some work, but I finally maaged to get it working.
Although I don’t have a Server license, Apple makes it available to Apple Developer Connection members, so I was able to download [...]

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VMware 2.0 is a winner

May 6th, 2008 · Comments Off · Macintosh

I own both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, although I’ve been using Parallels mainly because VMware had a problem with Visual Studio and shared folders. Parallels did feel nicer running Windows XP, although it slowed down my system pretty badly, even with 4GB RAM.
Even though I was getting disgusted with Parallels’ terrible Linux support and [...]

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Parallels vs. VMware

April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Macintosh

I’ve written about this several times before, since I own both products. I keep giving VMware another chance because I really want to use it, but I keep going back to Parallels for several reasons.
The major reason I can’t use VMware is because it has problems with Visual Studio Team Server. I use VSTS for [...]

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VMware vs. Parallels revisited

February 25th, 2008 · Comments Off · Macintosh

Since Scoble praised VMware, I decide to take another look at the latest version. I own both VMware and Parallels, but I currently use Parallels.
The new VMware converter made it easy to move my Parallels VM to VMware, so I was able to run my most recent Windows VM with it. Although there’s very [...]

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