I am visiting my family in lovely Ocean Pines until tomorrow morning. I had to make the visit before they decided to disown me. ;-) Additionally, I couldn’t make the visit in the next few weeks since i have some events going on in the next few weekends.
It’s good to see my grandfather, and he is doing well. I cannot get over the fact, though, that the old man is going to be 77 this November. Looks like I missed our chance to do breakfast on account of my morning run, but we will do breakfast tomorrow. I also need to visit my aunt and uncle later today, too.
- I ran outside for the first time in my training regimen for the Shamrock 5K this morning. I didn’t do too badly, but my time was not where I wanted it to be. It was also a bit windier than I expected this morning, but the wind was not too difficult to deal with. The only problem I have had since finishing my run is being unable to stop my nose from running and the occasional sneeze. I think this is just the result of breathing in dust and everything else blowing around while doing an outside run. It is slowly getting better, but my nose could run for office given how much it is running.
- I dropped the hammer this morning on my desktop. It ships on 1 March, and I went with the E521. I am not worried about what’s installed on it, as I will be blowing away the machine to perform a clean install. Nothing like spending money I don’t have, but I really need a working desktop at home. Ultimately, I am the one to blame since I knew my old desktop was going to die soon, I was living on borrowed time.
Time to enjoy the rest of the day.
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You should have bought a Mac
With parallels and soon VM Ware you could still run XP.
And it would have cost me at least 3 times what I spent on this machine. I like cheapness.
But apparently M$ won’t let you run Vista on a Mac unless you get one of the expensive versions - Business or Ultimate. Even then, some aspects of the new OS are not allowed to run in a virtualized setting. M$ claims security breaches as their reason. I think it’s greed. Microsoft puts up roadblocks on Vista for Mac owners
Who wants to run Vista anyway?
Sally: I know this is just MS lining its pockets, but I have to ask why a Home User would be using virtualization software in the first place. I agree that the versions and pricing are nuts, but I wouldn’t install any other version of Vista except Ultimate.
Paul: Actually, looks like me. On two machines.
Why would a home user want to us a VM? It makes a GREAT backup. Periodically take a clone of your VM and you have a complete backup of your entire system, including all your personalization setting. Imagine your HD dies and instead of having to go through the hassle of re-installing and reconfiguring Windows (and ; with re-activating it) you just get a copy of you VM, reinstall your host OS (I’d use linux), install you VM softwatre and boot your VM. tada! In under an hour you can be back up and running.
I had a listen to the Windows Weekly podcast on my tortuous commute to Washington this morning, and Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott were discussing this same issue.
For support purposes, MS will not support the use of the various Vista Home versions in virtual environments. Nonetheless, there is nothing that will stop you from installing said versions in a virtual environment. Thus, if you have Home Basic, go ahead and install away. Just don’t expect any office support from Microsoft.
And, Paul, I don’t disagree with any of your statements, but let’s be realistic here. How many normal home users know what virtualization is, yet alone know how to set it up and make use of it. Sure, the popularity of Parallels and the free availability of Virtual PC have made this a bit more visible, but I really don’t see the majority of home users taking up the task of installing virtual machines. Now, as the process becomes easier and VMs made more available by the vendors, I believe the uptake will increase. Until that time, most normal users will be put off by the notion of virtual machines.
I agree with you Jason, most home users are pretty clueless and setting up a VM is beyond them but it is still a good idea….maybe I should patent it and capitalize on it later when someone else actually makes a product out of it.
As to MS not supporting Vista Home in a VM….HA! Like I’d ever call them (or any other consumer computer supplier) for support. I choose to google before having to endure being on hold to talk to 1st level tech support.
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