Daily Archives: February 17, 2007

Proof it is really ShittyRail

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Dean

My mother, niece and fiancee travelled to Nowra and back today on a CityRail train. This was inexpensive however very nasty, just look at the picture of the toilet. The train was littered with garbage at 9am this morning. There was literally empty bottles and cans freely rolling around the carriage. The being a 3 hour journey the girls needed to go to the toilet. So off they trotted to the toilet hoping to take a load off their minds and were confronted with the pictured disgrace. Apparently it smelt as equally bad as it looks. It was also the only toilet on the carriage, and was unusable. Now I have seen old toilets that consisted of a deep hole in the ground that looked more sanitary than that. Continue reading →

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Parallels at Work

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Dean

Parallels Desktop continues to amaze me and I thought I would show it at work in the picture above. This is one cool virtualisation tool that is performing beyond my dreams. I have had up to 4 virtual machines running … Continue reading →

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SCHWOIT moves to Word Press

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Dean

After a few years of developing my own blog system I have decided to migrate to Word Press. The main reason is that I no longer have the time to maintain the code, whereas Word Press is maintained by a … Continue reading →

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Vista vs Mac OS X vs Linux – part 2

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Dean

Well I am now at the end of the VM loads and have managed to install 4 different Operating Systems. They are: Ubuntu Linux 2.10 Solaris 10 for x86 Microsoft Windows 2003 Microsoft Vista Ultimate All are running side by … Continue reading →

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Vista vs Mac OS X vs Linux

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Dean

With the recent launch of Microsoft Windows Vista I have found myself debating where I would like to go with my PC infrastructure at home. I currently have 5 desktops, 5 laptops, and a Sun V100 server in the house. … Continue reading →

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