Monthly Archives: November 2009

I’m fed up!

Posted on November 20, 2009 by cpjobling

Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on a virtual machine on a MacBook Pro with no problems (see previous post). Today I’m attempting to do the same thing on my office desktop. Yesterday I ran the compatibility checker and no real … Continue reading →

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I’m a PC!

Posted on November 19, 2009 by cpjobling

This is a screen-grab from my new MacBook Pro and it’s running Windows 7 in a OS/X window. It’s not magic, it’s the free open-source VirtualBox virtualizer from Sun Microsystems. At less than half the price of Parallels! It works. … Continue reading →

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Comment Spam Attacks

Posted on November 6, 2009 by cpjobling

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve started getting comment spam attacks on this blog via my comments stream. There’ll be comment like “I visited your blog and I’ve saved to read later” from a (presumably) bogus user. But the … Continue reading →

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