It was sunny but now the clouds are moving in so maybe we will get some much needed rain today. It would figure since yesterday I turned on all my sprinklers and replaced all the ones that weren't working properly.
Backyard looks nice now that I put everything back where it belongs. Now that sun gets to it the grass should grow real pretty. I Within the next month I'm going to start planting stuff in the big pots that my neighbor gave me and maybe make some trails or something. It's always a bit hard to get stuff home from Home Depot since my Vette doesn't make a very good truck at all.
After sleeping on it and looking at my design again I've decided to go with this design and am going over there to get it this afternoon. It is going on the back of my neck and I have a feeling it is going to be a bit painful but is there really any difference between pain and pleasure?
Cable modem keeps on going down for like five or ten minutes at a time so waiting to order Vonage until it is stable. They are suppose to come out again tomorrow to see why it is still not working properly.
Those who know me know that I'm a Mac user but like all Mac users sometimes I need to run a Windows program like being able to test my web pages in Windows IE.
A New Virtualization Product for the new Mactell machines from Apple has come out that allows you to run Windows or any OS within the Mac OS.
I installed this on my neighbor's Mactell 15" laptop yesterday. The whole install including installing Windows XP Pro version took under a hour. I accepted all the defaults and only had to change two afterwards. On the Virtualization software I had to tell it to use the laptop's real CD/DVD drive instead of a disk image and to use the laptop's wireless instead of the ethernet port.
It is basically just like the old VirtualPC software except it is fast, real fast. In fact faster then his PC tower that he has.
The window that it runs in resizes to whatever you set the Display control panel to in Windows XP and Windows XP works just like it would on a real PC.
Not sure how to access the right mouse click with the Mac's built-in track pad since it only has one button but there is probably a key combo given in the help files but a two button mouse works as expected. Don't get me started about Apple only putting one button on its stuff.
Just like VirtulalPC the "PC" is just a disk image so once you have everything setup the way you want you can then duplicate it in the Mac's OS for a backup. Then if your "PC" gets a virus or something you just throw this disk image away and use the clean backup. You can also have as many "PCs" running at once as you like with whatever OS you like. Also when you quit the "PC" you can save its state so next time it is ready instantly just the way you left it when you quit it.
This is fantastic software. 
Other then getting neck art not a lot going on today for me. If the weather stays nice I may go down to the beach or just go hang out at the neighbor's pool afterwards.
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