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Fixed my “useful” feed

July 31, 2008 –

Thanks to del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes and Firefox’s Live Bookmarks I have a handy toolbar folder containing a nice long list of “Useful” links. These links are usually complicated and not regularly used, but nice to have handy (eg the admin page for this site). Recently, I noticed that my list had shrunk. It turns out [...]

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Sometimes it IS that simple

July 30, 2008 –

Just recently, I have been having trouble getting my VMware machines to accept keyboard input.

The patterns:

Not a problem in unity mode. Which doesn’t help when you are trying to log in to the machine. Happens to both my Boot Camp image and to true virtual machines. Also happens on XP images and my Ubuntu image.

Of course, [...]

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Launch Vmware fusion apps from Quicksilver

July 23, 2008 –

I switched to a Mac late last year (traded a Powerbook for a Compaq Presario) and immediately started being jealous of all the owners of newer Macs with their intel chips. Specifially, I wanted VMware fusion so that I could run those select few windows apps I have yet to find reasonable mac substitutes for.

So [...]

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