Archive for February 17th, 2007

Proof it is really ShittyRail

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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 […]

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Parallels at Work

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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 simultaneously and have noticed no performance hit, and with the new coherence mode I am […]

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SCHWOIT moves to Word Press

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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 community. The old blog site has been archived to here although the blog functions […]

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Vista vs Mac OS X vs Linux - part 2

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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 side and doing the job.
I have also picked a common office application, OpenOffice.org 2.1. I have installed that on the […]

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Vista vs Mac OS X vs Linux

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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. Many unplugged, but all used at different times. I would like though to reduce this […]

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