@rujmah; blogs at rjjm.net
Screenwriting, geeky thought crunching, breadmaking, wife-and-kids loving dude.
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Enabling Intel VT on Compaq 6720s laptop
If you are using VMware or other virtualization software that can use
Intel VT (http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/) you may find
that it is not turned on by default.
To turn it on usually you merely have access your BIOS and enable it
from there. Followed by a cold reboot - that means that you actually
turn the machine completely off, leave for 10 seconds and then turn on
again.
If your machine has a straight forward BIOS access, lucky you - it took
me a few tries to find out that to access the ROM BASED SETUP
configuration was what I wanted (F10 on start up). Then nav to System Configuration > Device Configurations > Virtualization Technology
(Enable). Then COLD reboot.
Hope that helps for the Compaq 6720s laptop owners out there. Nice
little machine. I'm pretty chuffed with it.
More on what I'm doing with Virtualization in later posts.
Hat tip to this forum for the pointers:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=4835
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ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on a USB memory key » Yellow Bricks
For those like me who would like to check ESXi 3.5 update 2 but don’t want to install on a local harddisk. Here’s a good pdf about how to install it on a USB memory key. It’s fairly easy and I just booted my IBM X61 laptop with ESXi.
Soooo cool!
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myTools: 001 - Launchy
Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) is one of those tools that I use without thinking about it any more. When I came to write this post I had through the names in my programs menu to remember what it was called.
It allows you to launch an application by typing in a few letters of the app's name into an input box which appears with a keyboard shortcut. In my case, Alt-Space.
As many Mac owners will be screaming at this post by now, this is a functionality available in Spotlight by typing AppleKey-Space. It's true that Spotlight's functionality extends to recent files as well as programs, but I'm happy with Launchy's PC functionality for the moment (and I haven't checked for updates for a while...).
This allows me to launch apps from the keyboard without having to nav through program files or have lots of messy icons on my desktop. Like I said, I don't even think about it any more.
For screenshots: http://www.launchy.net/#screenshots
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Blog following up from 7 to 94 since using @posterous
I just noticed that the little feedburner counter box on the side of my blog http://tootechy.blogspot.com is up from 7 to 94 in about a month.
This is since I've been using Posterous as pretty much my exclusive means of posting to the web appart form comments and a litte bare web posting to twitter and facebook now and then. I post directly to my twitter account (@rujmah) and to my blog (Just Too Techy) from posterous. Been meaning to update it to take care of updates to Facebook as well.... I might do that soon.
Anyway, that's pretty impressive. One thing I notice from the Google Analytics is that I've only had two visits in the last month (not including me). So how are people subscribing? Has Feedburner got it wrong.
Well, whatever the weather - gave me a boost to see it.
Thanks if your a new follower. Do get in touch!
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Just listened to #464 For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report
Content summary: FIR Interview with Text 100’s Jeremy Woolf posted, FIR Book Review interview with Silvia Cambie and Yang-May Ooi coming; discussion: Best Buy seeks the wisdom of the crowd to co-create social media job description; Dan York reports on the road in California; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: United Breaks Guitars, what your favorite social network says about you according to Anderson Analytics, MWW launches d.Advocacy, an interactive map may help find an answer to what’s next for newspapers; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Phil Golub; and more.
Great show guys! Been away for a while but am subscribing on iTunes again from now on.
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Google to launch Chrome OS in 2010
In the second half of 2010, Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS, an operating system designed from the ground up to run the Chrome web browser on netbooks. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” Google writes
via techcrunch.com
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Listening to The Bottom Line podcast with Evan Davis
This week, Evan Davis asks his three leading business guests to reveal how they stay in touch with what’s happening down on the ground. Is it, as Evan suggests, just wandering about chatting to people or providing suggestion boxes here and there? And he wonders how easy it is to lose focus when you want to grow your business. Join his guests Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of the Guardian Media Group; Peter Taylor, Managing Partner of private equity group Duke Street; and Patrick Dempsey, Managing Director of Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants, including Premier Inn.
via bbc.co.uk
Fascinating - Auto Trader made £100m online last year!
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