Posts belonging to Category Windows XP
Posted by codethought on April 19, 2009
The bug allows a guest operating system (that’s the OS running inside the virtual machine) to execute code on the host operating system (the OS running the actual virtualization program). Kostya created a short video that shows just how this works. In the video, a Windows XP guest operating system launches the Calculator application in [...]
Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP |
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Posted by codethought on April 28, 2008
Has this ever happened to you?
Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP |
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Posted by davidjr on November 12, 2007
Even though Leopard ships with Boot Camp, lots of Mac users still get their virtual groove on with VMware Fusion, and its super-slick window display tool Unity. Today VMware announced Fusion 1.1, an upgrade that sports some cool new features and improvements.
read more | digg story
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Posted by codethought on September 15, 2007
So here’s the latest conversation coming from a restaurant in Cupertino – take it for what it’s worth. With the release of Leopard, Apple is going to change the iMac to include a second drive bay. If you purchase Apple Procare with your iMac, you can also purchase a second drive and Vista and Apple will [...]
Categories: Mac OS X, Windows XP |
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Posted by codethought on September 2, 2007
Chris Pirillo’s website has a great breakdown of Leopard vs Vista where he shows overall why Leopard is a better OS than vista.
Mac OS X Leopard vs Microsoft Windows Vista
While the article IS interesting what really caught me off guard was this comment from one of his readers:
Don Mitchell – September 1, 2007 @ 11:01 [...]
Categories: Linux, Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP |
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Posted by codethought on August 25, 2007
Got a Mac? Need to run Windows? You can always use Bootcamp… But how about Linux? That’s a bigger challenge. However with virtualization you can install either and run them along side OS/X. Currently there are 3 virtualization tools:
VirtualBox (in Beta on OS/X-Intel)
Parallels
VMWare Fusion
Low End Mac has a [...]
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Posted by codethought on November 30, 2006
The United States has planned a change to its DST observance beginning in 2007. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that DST will start on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November. In 2007, the start and stop dates will be March 11 and November 4, respectively. These [...]
Categories: J2EE, Java, Operating Systems, Programming, Windows XP |
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Posted by codethought on November 27, 2006
OK, Windows isn’t all *that* bad. At least XP turned out OK. But now, if Vista is their future, this could be bad. Just read about the joke that went into making a 9 (yes, nine) step process just to shutdown Windows Vista.
From Moblog – The Windows Shutdown crapfest :
The most frustrating [...]
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Posted by codethought on November 25, 2006
[Originally Posted 29-Sep-2004]
I don’t know why, but Microsoft hid Netmeeting in it’s Windows XP product. I don’t think malice was really intended, because it was hidden like an easter egg (not the software type – the hard boiled type). If malice was intended, it would have been outright removed from the product.
Anyway, after [...]
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Posted by codethought on November 25, 2006
[Originally Posted 20-July-2004]
Microsoft has been trying to put a stop to the Lindows Linux distribution because the name, according to them, represents Trademark infringement:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020381,2101619,00.htm
Well, Microsoft is losing that battle. So what did they do? They bought the Lindows name from Lindows (who now goes by the far better name Linspire) for US$20 Million:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39161016,00.htm
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