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VMWare

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Visual Studio locked up?

By dlambert ⋅ July 27, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

I could have kicked myself last week.  I was running Visual Studio 2010 in a VMWare VM, and it kept locking up – it was driving me batty.  The problem started out as one of those “once every four of five hours” kind of lock ups, but it eventually got to the point where I’d [...]

Choosing a Linux Distribution

By dlambert ⋅ January 8, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

A while back, a friend asked me some questions about getting started with Linux.  He wanted to know specifically whether he should pick up a copy of RedHat at the local retailer — for  something on the order of $80. I sent him back some notes about choosing a Linux install (distribution, or “distro”), and [...]

What, exactly, is wrong with “Private Clouds”?

By dlambert ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Image via Wikipedia I recently saw an interesting post by Gordon Haff that claims that cloud computing concepts can’t really be applied to enterprises smaller in scale than the Googles, Microsofts, and Amazons of the world. Humbug, I say.  I certainly didn’t have that impression when I learned about Azure. I’ll concede that there aren’t [...]

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