March 11, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Check out this great optimization article by the VMware Fusion team:
http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2008/09/optimizing-vist.html
They recommend these tweaks to get the most out of a VM with Vista running:
1) Disable System Restore
2) Disable Screen Savers
3) Optimize Power Management for Virtual Machine
4) Disable Windows Sidebar
5) Disable Remote Management
6) Run Windows Disk Defragmentation Utilities
7) OPTIONAL: Change to Classic UI
It all makes sense. System Restore isn’t required because of snapshots. Screen savers are unnecessary because the host OS (in this case, OS X) has a screen saver. The sidebar is totally ridiculous regardless of whether Vista is running in a sidebar or not. 
Check out the article for more information.
March 8, 2009 at 12:21 am
I’ve composed another new song called “Inside the Computor”, with an ‘o’. That’s right, I can spell things however I feel like it. Get it here.
March 7, 2009 at 1:00 am
I’ve uploaded a new song called An Integrated Approach to Communication. It’s my first Garage Band song of, hopefully, many to come. Enjoy!
October 25, 2008 at 9:27 pm
EDIT – I reinserted the drive into a different USB port and it seems to be working. Maybe it’s on my end, or maybe it’s just fickle like the guy on NewEgg said.
I purchased a PNY 4GB Attache Optima Pro USB drive to be used with ReadyBoost.
In bold white text, the box says “Enhanced for Windows ReadyBoost.” Unfortunately, Windows Vista Ultimate 64 thinks the opposite: “This device does not have the required performance characteristics for use in speeding up your system.” On NewEgg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178198), people are having the same problems as me.
Occasionally, Ready Boost will refuse to work with this drive. Also, sometimes my two PCs won’t recognize this drive. Typically, reinserting it will solve the problem but occasionally a reboot is needed. I had to return my first one because the file system somehow became corrupted.
I can’t do anything to get it to work. Reformatting, re-inserting, “Test Again”, whatever. It’s going back tomorrow.
PNY, I’m sorry but you lost my business.
August 26, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Flickr opened up their service to the programming world with a publicly accessible API. As usual, I’m way behind the times and I’ve just discovered this feature.
I started using Flickr a few months back for photo hosting and I’ve been addicted ever since. So much in fact, that I haven’t bothered updating my own pictures page. The solution of course was to create a section on my website that connects to Flickr using their API. The first iteration of this page is located at http://mswebby.com/flickr/sets.php.
Unfortunately, Flickr’s API doesn’t include any functions for getting Collections of photos, just Sets. So my site is completely disorganized at the moment.
