Hugh's Worthless Blog

Today the new MercyMe album came out "All That Is Within Me" and they seem to be competing with Casting Crowns to see who can release the shortest album! In reality they are sounding more and more like Casting Crowns minus the female vocals which is both a good and a bad thing. At least they did not put a weird hidden song on the end of this album like they did on " Coming Up to Breathe " or Casting Crowns did on " The Altar and the Door ". Just ten very nice tracks and that is it. They actually post their lyrics on their own album lyrics site , but my "All That Is Within Me" lyrics page makes the words actually copyable and also adds in the "extras" as they sing them. My latest software toys include the vmware player running on both Windows and Linux and gOS . Since the vmware player is free you can openly install it where ever you like, create virtual machines ad infinitum and enjoy the wonders of virtualization. We may actually ...

I started setting up someone's system to dual boot between XP and Gutsy Gibbon when they asked about using some virtualization software like Xen or Parallels to actually run XP within their Ubuntu host. I already have Parallels on my iMac and that runs pretty well, but I had never had the greatest luck with qemu or Xen under Linux since I never had a machine to play with which had enough memory to run a virtual client well. But her system had 2 GB and a Pentium D processor so it seemed like a good time to try to get it working. Following a suggestion I found on the net, I downloaded vmplayer from vmware.com and then went to www.easyvmx.com to create a blank virtual machine to run. Following the instructions I have written up at our freeware site , I was able to boot off my XP CD and install a full running copy of XP SP2 on her Gutsy Gibbon box (and later on my own Dell Precision) complete with working audio, networking and Shared Folders. Now when I need a Windows box, I can just...