Tag Archive for 'vmware'

Not PC vs Mac

March 20th, 2009 by admin

I just haven’t been prepared to journey across Oxfordshire to help someone with a tired looking Dell running Windows 98. I will continue to refuse encounters of that sort, but a reasonably recent PC running a modern OS should not be beneath me when it or its owner has some trouble. Continue reading

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Kernel panic not VMWare

November 27th, 2008 by admin

The Mac didn’t stop panicing on start-up no matter what bit of software I removed, what cache I cleared, which plist I dumped. Continue reading

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Beware vmware snaphots

November 4th, 2008 by admin

My MacBook Pro has been running out of space for some time and I have put off the inevitable tidy. It was down to its last 20 GB where it always starts to get into trouble. (That seems like a lot to me as I had older macs that didn’t have that in total).

Anyway time to lose some stuff, so I searched (cmd-space) for the usual culprits: .dmg, .ps files… Continue reading

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