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Ubuntu Laptop Flop


About once a year I try Linux on one of my workstations to see if it’s a viable alternative to Windows as my primary Operating System. Like many people, I can’t get completely away from Windows simply because the rest of the world uses it and Microsoft’s Office applications. Not only do I need convenient interoperability but I also need to test the software I write on that platform since my software constituency uses it almost exclusively.

VMware Host Time Synchronization


I have a Dell 2950 on which I installed Ubuntu Gutsy and VMware Server to host some applications for testing. The guest OS was CentOS 5 in an appliance put together by the folks running the Thoughtpolice web site. I found that the CentOS guest time was off and didn’t synchronize itself automagically as I [...]