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Simple to Time Consuming
24.Feb.07 | Leave a Comment
You ever start what seems to be a simple little project, only to get sucked into a series of events that consumes the next few hours? I did that twice today. Man, I’m beat.
First one: I have a development server at work that was initially prototyped on a very old PIII 500 [...]
Things I’ve learned this week
22.Feb.07 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been tasked with planning and testing a series of infrastructure changes and upgrades. To make some of the testing easier and less disruptive, I’ve been using a couple of VMware products. Sure, I’ve mentioned them here before, but I’ve never spent this much time with them and I’ve really grown to appreciate [...]
Virtual Conversion Virtually Ugly
02.Jan.07 | 1 Comment
Curiosity got the best of me last night. A month or so ago I mentioned that Microsoft was encouraging virtualization as a way to test with IE6. In that same article I wondered about converting the free Virtual PC image to VMware format…
So I decided to try.
The conversion was painless, if a bit [...]
A Twist on Running IE6 and IE7 on a Single Machine
30.Nov.06 | 1 Comment
I just finished reading an article on the IEBlog titled, “IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine.” Now here’s a fascinating twist on how to run both browsers on the same machine. This isn’t the usual way to accomplish it. Instead, they trot out the “virtualization” method (again). But [...]
VMware Converter
09.Nov.06 | Leave a Comment
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. VMware has released VMware Converter, a (beta) utility that can, among other things, clone an existing machine into a virtual machine. It can also migrate virtual machines amongst various VMware formats and other 3rd party formats too.
I have a little test server at the office [...]
Haven’t tried it with SP3 here. My...