Linux apps not quite ready

I know that heading is going to draw fire.  Flaming, diahrea, explosive ridicule most likely.  That’s ok.  It’s a true statement.  However, I obviously need to qualify it to be proper.
As I’ve said before: A person’s experience “switching” to Linux will vary as much as their DNA varies.  Every person has their own unique needs, [...]

Linux Rewind: Vista Fast Forward?

My Ubuntu experiment came to a halt, sort of.
After running into some problems meeting an urgent demand to get work done for my brother and some friends, I found running the apps inside VMware unsuitable.  If not for performance reasons, well, for performance reasons.  And besides, as I said in an earlier post: Spending a [...]

Life with Linux

So, after a reader suggested this article by Clive Cooper “How I made the transition from Windows to Ubuntu“, I have to say that the obvious response to that is that the “results” of such a transition are almost entirely subjective. Not entirely, but almost. The emphasis of any perception of a “good [...]

Cloaking VM guest identification

This article by Tom Liston is an HTML rendering of what was actually a PDF presentation on the topic of inside-out VM probing.  If you search Google using “vmware guest machine registry” it’s the top hit.  Basically, it describes the use of various techniques to probe from within a guest VM to determine if it [...]