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More VMWare Woes
Sep 8, 2008 16:53 - 0 Comments
Further to my previous post regarding getting VMWare Server up and running on Vista I spent a while over the weekend trying to migrate a Virtual PC image. VMWare kindly provides a tool to carry out the conversion called VMWare Convertor. My first attempt was met with a message: “Unable to Determine Guest Operating System”. [...]
VMWare on Vista
Aug 29, 2008 13:25 - 0 Comments
Just got a new laptop running Windows Vista Business and while it hasn’t been as painful as I had expected (having 4gb of ram helps) I did spend all of Wednesday morning trying to resolve a problem with VMWare Server. Installation was fine but as soon as I tried to start an image the machine [...]
Windows Virtualisation with Sun VirtualBox
Jul 4, 2008 11:56 - 0 Comments
Virtualisation has become all the rage recently. Running multiple instances of a system on a single piece of hardware is a very compelling proposition as everyone try’s to get more out of their investments. While virtualisation is typically applied to server environments there is no reason why it cannot be used on a suitably specified [...]
Xobni (L) LinkedIn
Jun 26, 2008 17:42 - 0 Comments
There has been a new update to the Outlook companion Xobni that adds information from LinkedIn. It can now import pictures from the business networking site and also provides (brief) details on the selected individual, typically their title and company. This clearly only works where the email address that they have corresponded with you matches [...]
Skydrive and Folder Share
May 8, 2008 12:40 - 0 Comments
Microsoft has a couple of similar services that help you access your files (documents, pictures, mp3s etc). These are Skydrive (stupid name, I much preferred Windows Live Folders) which is an online document storage facility with 5gb of free space and FolderShare that allows folders between multiple machines to be synchronised. However, there is one [...]
Xobni – the Essential Outlook Plugin
Apr 22, 2008 23:00 - 2 Comments
Over the last week I have been trying out a new beta plugin for Outlook called Xobni (Inbox backwards) that helps you make sense of the mess that is your email. Xobni appears as a column down the right hand side of Outlook that displays information about the sender of the currently selected email. At [...]
