Monthly Archive: October 2009

Oct 29

VMware Player 3.0 and Network Configuration

I updated VMware Player to the latest version (3.0) on my home machine last night[1]. Wanted to check out the latest version and get a first hand look at the new features. I pointed it to my trusty Xubuntu “security” virtual machine and booted up. I ran into a snag pretty quickly though. Seemed that …

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Oct 14

Synergy+

I first mentioned Synergy almost 4 years ago on this blog – that’s a lifetime in blog years! Ever since then it has been a utility installed on almost all of my machines. I often have two or more going on my desk and Synergy makes it so easy to control all of them with …

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Oct 02

Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials

As geeks, we’re often asked for help with choosing and installing antivirus software for friends & family members.  We all have our favorite “packages” and we all trade thoughts on the latest/greatest free AV offerings. For instance, until this week I’d settled on the free version of Avira AntiVir coupled with Microsoft’s Windows Defender. Those two together …

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