Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Posted the following question to VMware communities forum: "On hard drive #1 I have OS X which is taking up about 85 GB with about 150 GB available. On hard drive #2 I have Win XP as Boot Camp which is taking up 22 GB with about 475 GB free. I would like to install Windows Vista as a VM but still keep Win XP in case I don't like Vista. Is it possible for me to create a duplicate of the Win XP (image?) and then upgrade that to Vista so that I don't have to reinstall all my apps? I hardly ever use Boot Camp anymore, so if necessary I can give that up for both XP and Vista. And, I'm not picky about where the Vista VM will live as long as any partition resizing or restructuring is relatively easy and reliable. Or, am I expecting too much with Vista's ability to upgrade XP reliably and I should do a clean, separate install of Vista? What do you think? Using Fusion 1.1.3. Thanks!" Old server finished dbanning, prepped it for decommission. "windows cannot locate the server copy" after a long delay while attempting to log in as admin—fixed it by opening ADU&C in MMC and removing an old path for the profile path. Cardkey door lock installs are proceeding on schedule. cdrom dupe is a little late, but should be done by the end of the week. Said hello to Eric D. Dropped off MacBook Pro cdroms to Rodney. Installed Adium 1.3. MyAccess review. Lunch: leftovers. Prepared id card spreadsheet for Terence. MyAccess review took the rest of the day. Home. Snack: nonfat mixed berry yogurt. Blocked kravelasvegas on twitter - gay spam. Installed Michael Kaply's Operator both at work and at home. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Did some scripting for Danny's website. Marked up the frankfarm.org contact page with microformats. The microformats specification and cheatsheet for hCard is really hard to understand. It took me a really long time to figure out that you can't have something with class="fn" that's more than 2 words. If you do, then it won't be imported to, say, Apple Address Book properly—it comes in with no name at all. To make it work, you need class="fn org" but then I don't know if my use of it is correct, and the microformats wiki doesn't provide any obvious guidance on this matter. I'm wanting to mark up an email address that sends email to 2 people—like a really tiny mailing list. Should I use org for this? I don't know. Stretches. Weight training: advanced one-legged plank, advanced one-legged side plank. Stretches. Late meal: leftover pasta pomodoro. More work on Danny's website. Shopped online for shoes and for backpacks for kids—bought nothing. Noticed that Zappos now has clothing including kids' clothing, but it's mostly priced much higher than I'm used to paying at H&M Boys. I decided today that my backpack is too big for me, so I'm going to find a kid-sized backpack instead and see how that goes.