I’ve not tested this as I don’t have a Win7 VM anywhere (yet). Cavet Emptor.
VMware vSphere Client on Microsoft Windows 7! | Virtual Lifestyle.
VMware vSphere Client on Windows 7
British PM apologizes for treatment of gay code-breaker
British PM apologizes for treatment of gay code-breaker – CNN.com.
No single man did more to win the war in Europe than Alan Turing, who is also the father of modern computing. The fact that closed-minded homophobic bigots caused him to take his life is a tragedy that must never be repeated!
Kudos to Prime Minister Brown for acting quickly and decisively once the matter what brought to his attention, rather than trying to weigh its political consequences in the next election.
The Hydrogen Myth
An excellent presentation by Georgia Tech’s Stephen Fleming on the economics and physics of Hydrogen as an alternate fuel. Presented at Dragon*Con.
Imperial Russia in Color
Striking color photographs of Imperial Russia taken by the Tsar’s official photographer.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
67TB for under $8k
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog.
Hint: My birthday is coming up. 🙂
How to Clone Virtual Machines.
How to open CLI to VMware ESXi. How to Clone Virtual Machines. | HowConfig.
VMware vSphere Client
In case anyone was wondering, you can run the VI client inside Parallels Desktop on a Mac. As I plan to switch to VMware Fusion if I get Snow Leopard for my birthday I hope it works in that too. I’d really like to virtualize my Windows box.
Ew, assuming I can get the USB pass through to work in ESXi. I need to be able to use the scanner in my VM.
Command Center
More good Essays
Startups in 13 Sentences
Ramen Profitable
Keep Your Identity Small
The whole list of essays
Meetings & productivity
I found this essay on Paul Graham’s website. Here is the link. I’ve quoted it for posterity.
One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more.
There are two types of schedule, which I’ll call the manager’s schedule and the maker’s schedule. The manager’s schedule is for bosses. It’s embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals. You can block off several hours for a single task if you need to, but by default you change what you’re doing every hour.
When you use time that way, it’s merely a practical problem to meet with someone. Find an open slot in your schedule, book them, and you’re done.
Most powerful people are on the manager’s schedule. It’s the schedule of command. But there’s another way of using time that’s common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can’t write or program well in units of an hour. That’s barely enough time to get started.