Fun with VMware

Still in the crusade for trying to have a really generic Windows VM image (and in the Win2003R2-32, Win2003R2-64 and Win2008-64 flavors), my thoughts on a methodology. Anyone wish to comment?
Standard Windows install for modular VMware installs:
virtual disk 1 – c:\ drive – windows
1/ Install base OS (Windows 2003 R2 SP2 both 32- and 64-bit [...]

LINUX Blues with Red Hat

For a very long time (especially when I was working for another huge computer company), I resisted the LINUX revolution preferring to use and promote commercial UNIXes (Solaris, HP-UX, OS X,…oh yeah I guess we could include AIX if we were willing to call it UNIX . Now that I am doing lots of [...]

Tips for using Leopard over Windows Part 1: Moving Outlook to Mail

I have been trying to free myself from Windows for some time now. Here is one trick I used to free myself particularly from Outlook for mail archives.
I have about 5 GB of archives of Outlook mail in pst files. As we all know, Entourage is gleefully ignorant of pst files and thus this was [...]

Tips for using Leopard over Windows Part 2: VMware and XP co-habitation made easy

Another tip I found useful for integrating my various environments between Leopard and VMware XP and Windows 2003 images:
Leave all data (Outlook and all Office files) on the Leopard disk and mount them into a common disk in your virtual machines (I used the M: drive). This way, no matter what VM you are [...]