Monthly Archives: February 2008
3 Days left
Damn, my VMWare Fusion demo expires in three days. Looks like I’ll be without Windows on my Mac until I can afford to buy the full version. Despite being the shortest month of the year, this one has proven to be quite expensive for reasons I can’t quite work out. I think hiring the van and moving the sofa did it, I made use of the van to buy lots… Continue reading
Connecting to a Windows domain on another subnet
I’m running VMWare Fusion on my Macbook. In it is an instance of Windows XP. I have a Samba server on my network that is configured to be a domain controller. If I connect my Macbook to the wired network, VMWare Fusion will create a bridged network device and the XP instance gets its own IP address from my DHCP server.
Irritatingly, if I use the Airport wireless connection, the VMWare… Continue reading
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Techie Overload
I’ve just finished making my Linux machine work properly again, VMWare Player run XP on it, and then configured my Samba server to be a PDC. I now have roaming profiles and a real Windows Doman for all these Windows instances I have.
In theory it means I have one set of application settings, rather than having to copy data about manually. I know this does actually work because… Continue reading
Google Mobile
For a while it’s been possible to browse the Google search using a mobile device by pointing a browser at the Google Mobile page. From then it’s the usual Google Search affair to do a web search.
I’ve just noticed, at the bottom of my iGoogle page a link to view it on my mobile phone. Hoping this would be some fantastic RSS/GMail/Calendar iGoogle style page for… Continue reading
Bad Day Syndrome
Or “BDS” as it’s known. They warn new teachers about this, and how some days just seem to fall apart or never get started. Supposedly the trick is to not take it out on the kids. I think I managed this, but it’s not easy when you have some grinning idiot purposefully trying to throw a bag full of spanners into your neatly tuned lesson plan.
I think today I was… Continue reading