Daily Archives: January 18, 2008

Surfing from the sofa

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Given the fact that most current wide screen TV’s in the UK have a VGA input – you might be tempted to plug your PC into it and have a great monitor some of the time. The next problem you might face is – how do I control it ? So in my case I […]

Parallels OS Support In Virtualisation

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For those who are interested – some more detail about the Parallels platform … The current version of Parallels Workstation for Windows officially supports the following guest operating systems: Microsoft Windows guest operating systems: – Windows Vista – Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP0 – Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP1 – Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0 […]

Parallels Virtualisation

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In the past I’ve mentioned Virtualisation and the power of being able to create a self contained virtual machine for testing, consolidation, disaster recovery or other purposes. Parallels platform is unique in the Windows and Mac variants it provides (run windows Xp on your mac for fun) – I’ve successfully created bsd, vista, solaris and […]

Working hard or Hardly working ?

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Setting up a terminal server based application for a client brought up an interesting issue recently. The basic outline is a windows 2003 terminal server with HP thin clients on the shop floor with dustproof keyboards as mentioned here. The production MIS application runs off a unix system with a windows front end located on […]