One nice way to run windows, is to do it virtually on the Gibbon. I’m using VMWare workstation 6 (very nice) and have both XP and Vista running virtually.

Laptop doesn’t have enough under the hood to run the beryl and VMS, so for now life without the beryl is fine.

I can’t believe its been almost a month since my last post. I really intended to post about once a week when I started this thing.

Its also been about a month since I quit using Windows Vista Enterprise as my main workstation. I havent exactly missed it. I still have an xp workstation with some of my admin tools, but I’m almost finished with my P-V projects. Once that is finished, things arent looking so good for vista in my future.

I’m at the crossroads sort of. I’ve made a decent living supporting M$ at the SMB and Enterprise levels, both as consultant and employee. I also own and operate a small consulting firm on the side that quite frankly is mainly a M$ solutions provider. Oh well, we’ll continue to add value and recommend whatever solution is best.

Its been a couple weeks since I started this blog, and it seems I couldn’t have started at a busier time. I’ve been virtually unable to post during the past two weeks.

In the meantime I have grown extremely weary with my Vista installation. 2.1 overall stinks. It appears that my Centrino mobile processor is the choking point. I have a respectable mobile laptop. Granted its not new, but it has a gig of memory and 128mbs of dedicated mem. I want the Aero.. I dont want to run without it. I can run it, but I get sick of waiting. Not to mention other issues.

Did I mention that I’m testing out the new version of Ubuntu linux. I’m pleased with the Dell support. I was pleasantly surprised to see my wireless get up and go without installing anything else. It also told me my battery was potentially recalled and took me to the website. Not bad…..

Where am I going with this? I’ll give it some time. Right now Suse is pretty tough to beat in the Enterprise, however in the SMB market Ubuntu seems to make alot of sense.

I’m anxious to start blogging here, so here goes.  Its 6:50am and I’m working from the local car dealership while the oil gets changed.  Nice cup of complementary 5bucks (starbucks) and off I go.

 I spent the better part of two hours yesterday with MCS talking about VA2.0 (volume activation).  Looks as if we are getting keys that will only work in our neck of the woods.  This is pretty slick and I commend M$.  

You ask, how did you spend 2 hours on this?  Well, I wasnt alone.  Lots of people asking dumb questions on top of M$ differentiating time and again between “licensing and activation”.

To be continued…..