I previously described how I wanted to virtualise my laptop in Virtualising my Laptop. I have made some progress with this, but not as much as I would have liked :(
I heard some great recommendations for VirtualBox recently, so I decided to investigate it a bit further. I found the following articles the most useful:
I think that all of this is enough to convince me that VirtualBox is a real contender! The next step is to download it and try it myself :)
I also did some reading about how the virtual machine software handles multiple cores and Hyper-threading. It appears that it is able to distinguish between them, and it will always allocate cores before a Hyper-threaded unit. I understand this from reading the following two documents:
This weekend I also downloaded Ubuntu 10.04, although I have not had time to try it yet.
Tags: Ubuntu, VirtualBox, VMware
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Today I came across this list of Dot.com website failures: Top 15 Defunct Websites.
I remember hearing about some of them at the time. It is fascinating how many of the websites failed because they were too early, and there now exists successful equivalents.
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I read this great article about Microsoft PowerPoint: We have met the enemy, and he is PowerPoint.
The direct link to the slide mentioned in the article is Afghanistan Stability/COIN Dynamics.
I think that it is priceless!
Tags: Microsoft
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I think that U3-X is a nicely cryptic post heading, and at the same time it conveys a very futuristic image :D
So what is it? Well, it is a really funky unicycle being developed by Honda. I read about it today in Riding Honda’s U3-X Unicycle of the Future. The video is really worth watching also!
To think that I thought office chairs with coasters were fun!
Tags: Honda, U3-X
Money is something that has fascinated me for the last few years. I do not mean that I am obsessed about obtaining it :) Instead, I am interested in the design, production, and usage of the actual notes and coins! There is a lot of technology involved in all of this!
I was in the US recently. I think that it is a great country (with a few negative aspects), but the Dollar drives me crazy!
My main annoyances are:
- The coins do not have their values printed on them!
- The notes are all the same size and colour!
- The prices displayed in shops never include the taxes! This makes it really difficult not to accumulate lots of small change!
These things probably annoy me so much because I am used to using the Euro, which is very new and it was designed with usability in mind. For example, all of the Euro coins have different engravings on their sides so that they can be easily identified by visually impaired people.
Over the weekend I did a search using Google for something that was on television at that time. I was very surprised to see Google listing current Twitter postings near the top of the search results!
Tags: Google, Twitter
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I have fallen in love with a new eCommerce company! It is called Moo, and it prints all types of business cards!
I received my MiniCards in the post today, and I am really impressed! They are so nice that I do not want to give them away!
Like many Web 2.0 companies, Moo makes great usage of its blog and other popular social networking sites.
Tags: Moo
Somebody passed a comment today on a piece of CamelCase in some code that we were looking at today.
I never heard of that name before, even though I use CamelCase a lot!
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More good news in the Irish employment market – Citrix is expanding its Irish operations.
See Up to 30 new jobs for Citrix in Dublin for more details.
Tags: Citrix, Ireland
