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The Mac Fusion and VMWare

Mac OS X Server on VMWare 2.0
Developer Mac - Fusion
Am I the only some who sees something in common here? Seems to me this would be ideal for a developer.

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2008 06 12 anothergene hardware
software
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.Mac Down

Seems the .Mac services are down.  Can’t get into my Web Mail or address book.  Jives with one rumor.  Just waiting for the redirects to me.com or mobileme.com.
Update:  It appears to be back up and the same as before.  Maybe just a hickup?

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2008 06 09 anothergene internet
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XP sp3 trashing computers

Ars technica is reporting that the xp sp3 endless reboot problems are due to driver and hardware issues.
and people complain that Apple owning the end to end experience from hardware to OS to software is a bad thing.

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2008 05 09 anothergene OS
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.Mac “2.0″ in the works?

The Unoffical Apple Weblog as a report of the total redesign for .Mac to coincide with the roll out of the iPhone 2.0.
The two hight points they mention are:

Full over-the-air syncing including calendars, contacts, and email (similar to Exchange)
.Mac syncing on Windows

If either of these items is true, it is a huge win [...]

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2008 05 09 anothergene internet
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The future of VMWare and OS X

So I was at a VMWare seminar recently and the System Engineer presenting made an interesting comment while talking about VMWare Update Manager.  He listed off the companies who’s products it will patch and at the end of his list was Apple.  Now I know Apple EULA for 10.5 allows for running the OS virtualized [...]

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2008 04 22 anothergene OS
rumors
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The Magic of Option Click

I always forget about the usually undocumented affect of option clicking on something in OS X.  I, along with a lot of other people (see the apple support forums) are having connectivity issues with our Time Capules.  After not getting anywhere in the forums, I called Apple support.  What they gave me to try was to [...]

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2008 03 26 anothergene os x
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New Cell Phone Time

My cell contract is up soon and I’m looking for a new phone to replace my piece of s#@t LG 325.  I’m not going to get into what is wrong with it.  I just want it to go away and never think of it again.
The phone I’m thinking of is the Motorola  KRZR k1m.  Any [...]

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2007 08 22 anothergene cellphone
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What’s the best way to run Windows on Mac OS X?: CNET runs some benchmarks

Looks like the numbers are in and according to CNet, VMWare Fusion is the way to go.
I’m a little disappointed the gaming results, but I’m not a huge gamer. Most of the games I’ll run will either be a flight simulator or a real time strategy. The RTS games will run fine with [...]

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2007 08 21 anothergene OS Comments (0)

More on VMWare vs. Parallels

Chris Prillo has chimed in the VMWare vs Parallels topic. As usual, he doesn’t have much insightful to say about it other then linking to some other people’s reviews.
Parallels vs VMware Fusion - No Contest? ~ Chris Pirillo
You might want to give his post a quick read then move on to the useful info.

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2007 08 17 anothergene OS
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Core 2 iMac, VMWare and BootCamp - Part 1 Ubuntu

The other day, my spouse brought home a newish Intel iMac from work to get caught up on some things. I thought great this is going to give me a chance to play around with VMWare and BootCamp when she’s not using it. It only has integrated video so I won’t be able [...]

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2007 07 11 anothergene OS
hardware
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