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Included* in Windows 7** Professional and Ultimate is Windows XP Mode, a virtual machine which replicates the entire*** Windows XP environment. Anyway, all asterisks aside, it’s pretty cool and pretty effective. Even Microsoft says it’s not perfect, but I have had really good luck with it. That said, there are a few things which really make it shine:

+ Allot enough memory to your virtual machine. 3584M does quite nicely.
+ Enable “hardware virtualization” in your bios.
+ Run it fullscreen
+ Install the .NET framework ver. 4
+ Install video and sound drivers specific to your hardware
+ Be prepared to funk with it for awhile before everything is perfect

and there you have it.. XP VM on 7.

peace….
Orb

* but not on the disc. Download it from microsoft.com (as long as you have Pro or Ultimate, it is a free download.)
** 6.1
*** not quite entire

PROBLEM: Themes don’t work. Images never show, colors and styles seem to be ok though.

INTEL: Seems the cookie expired on March 10, 2008.

$header .= “Set-Cookie: ” . $key . “=” . $val . “;path=/; expires=Mon, 10-Mar-08 14:36:42 GMT;\r\n”;

SOLUTION: Change line 1349 in /usr/bin/gnump3d to reflect some other date (preferably one in the future) as the expiration date for the cookie.

As it turns out, it stopped working because the cookie was expired before it ever got used!

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Peace

sfc /scannow (scans system files and replaces when necessary)

bootrec /fixboot (try to automatically repair system boot problems)

bootrec /fixmbr (remove and recreate master boot record)

Phenom II x6, 1055T

22 bios

32 idle, win7×64

42 bad company 2

Pretty impressed!

So.. I ‘ve got an iPhone and a chocolate touch ….the iPhone has a much larger screen.. The chocolate touch has better Audio quality and touch feedback on the screen … Where the iPhone has a cool completing the words for you. The touch feedback is really nice . You can actually feel the scrolling and when you click a key.. Nice features.

iPhone performsmuch much better on video. But the chocolate touch has much much better sound

Right now I am listening to my chocolate touch and writing to you lovely people on the iPhone !,,, which brings me to another comparison - wi-fi . Iphone’s got it.. Not supported by chocolate touch. Huge disappoinent there. . But then it sure does sound good . Looks like ill be carrying them both for awhile.

Qed

So.. I got this wild idea the other day that I could make my computer faster by setting up a raid. I hadn’t done a redundant array of inexpensive disks for quite some time, and figured what the hell. It is amazing…. Everything is faster. I highly recommend it.

G-Force from SoundSpectrum not working properly? Disable the bonjour service (mdnsresponder.) It will automatically run itself again when it is needed (like to sync your appleTV or iPod) but is not needed other than that!

Microsoft Web Apps Beta:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=27d81b1c-18ae-4983-8e1c-224bb747eb99 [microsoft.com]

Testing out posting from the iPhone.

Well, today a customer asked me about “a free alternative to Microsoft Office.” I of course responded with praise of OOo (openoffice.org) and went even further to write down Thunderbird and gIMP for them to recommend downloading.. But part of my job is selling software. So I should have said that MS Office was what they needed.. or should I have? I may have earned a customer for life. Always a possibility. What do you think? I am being paid to provide solutions to customers BY SELLING OUR PRODUCTS.

Is it more important to gain a few hundred bucks’ sale or a customer’s trust? What is worth more?

Alright - I am locked in for at least another year with Verizon. What is the best phone that I can get at a reasonable cost (I am not going to qualify for welcome-to-verizon sales) that has at least 40G of mp3 storage on it, is extensible, and just generally kicks ass.

The Droid seems like an option, but they’re going for $500 on eBay unlocked (or $199 through a welcome-to-verizon sale)

But you know what? … I already have a phone. And it works fine. I just have to carry it and my iPod anywhere I’d like to be able to talk on the phone or listen to music. If I wanted to access the net, I’d need my tablet or notebook too. I want all of these things - in one neat little package. And I am hearing I can get it through Droid. But if people are bidding upwards of $500 for these on eBay, what is the true cost of the Driod to an existing Verizon customer? And how do I go about making this thing happen?

My wife got a kickass new phone, can you tell?