Into the Void

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Windows 7 under VMWare

April 28th, 2009
Screen capture: Windows 7 running under VMWare.

Screen capture: Windows 7 running under VMWare.

I really like VMWare. I’ve installed Windows 7 Beta into a virtual machine.

A virtual machine is an operating system running within a software computer. The computer is no computer. It’s all rather zen.

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VMWare and Win98

June 5th, 2007

Mr. X was asking about his favorite DOS-based Doubles Pinochle program again. I was unable to get it running under either Win2000 Pro or WinXP Pro SP2 – it looked as if it were grabbing the fonts with the wrong character size. I had given up on it, but Mr. X is really into pinochle.

DPIN
So here it is, 3AM, and DPIN is running under Windows 98 in a VMWare virtual machine. If I didn’t have bouts of insomnia I’d never get anything important done!

Incidentally, Kubrick looks hideous in a 640x480x16 window. But it was usable enough to enable me to write the first draft of this post. Good deal.
Kubrick 16

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Windows Vista – Got Crack?

August 10th, 2006

Hacker publicly cracks Windows Vista – vnunet.com

For those of you who aren’t aware that the long-awaited Microsoft “Longhorn” OS has been released for Beta testing under the new name “Vista”… well, they have. Add more memory, clear 40G in your harddrive to run a virtual machine, and buy a new video card if you want to check it out.

The shoemaker’s children go unshod, of course: I downloaded Vista and Office 2007 weeks ago, bought a new harddrive in order to create a dual-boot system, then moved on to other things.

“The fact that this mechanism was bypassed doesn’t mean Vista is insecure. It just means it’s just not as secure as advertised.”
– Joanna Rutkowska

Rutkowska is a security researcher with coseinc. She demonstrated a way to load unsigned drivers into Windows Vista at the Black Hat security conference.

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