Virtual gulker.com on a Mini or two
Robert Carleton’s story about moving a rack full of older Celeron-based servers to a Mac Mini, using Parallels VM software to host the BSD images of his servers, got me thinking. Robert’s pages, served from a BSD image of his old rack mount servers hosted on a Mac Mini now on his desktop, pop […]
So far so good…
As you can see from the legend above [since removed: see Comments below], Spam Karma 2 is working fine, catching all the dreck that I would otherwise be cleaning out of the comments. Question, how does one remove the banner…?
Spam Karma 2 arrives, and gets right to work
Reader Paul Waite was kind enough to comment, when I complained about mounting comment spam, that he thought Charles Arthur had found a solution for his WordPress blog. As it happens, Charles and I worked for the Independent in London together: Charles edited the Network section, wherein I penned a column.
I left a note on […]
Mac Mini VT-X disabled by firmware update?
According to this post on the Parallels Support Forum - VT-X disabled by firmware update?, Mac Minis with firmware MM11.004B.B00 (the version my machine has) show VT-X working and not working. Parallels works OK, but is supposed to really fly with VT-X ‘on.’ Parallels reports mine is not working…
Even more virtual
A guy in Hawaii replaced an aging rack of Celeron-based 1U servers with a Mac Mini running BSD in 2 Parallels virtual machines. His machines catch 10,000 accesses or so a week, and his power and air-conditioning bill have dropped considerably. Cool…
Going virtual
Parallels, the Mac OS X virtualization software that lets me run Windows XP on my Mac Mini, is awesome. With only 512 MB RAM (and the OS needs 128 MB for the video with XP installed) performance is perfectly usable. As hoped, the Mustek scanner’s Windows software is a bit less crash prone (albeit wierder) […]
Geekin’ it
So, we installed Parallels, virtual machine software for Mactel computers, on our dual-core Mac Mini. Our base configuration (read, 512 KB RAM) actually works! We installed Parallels with 5 or 6 other apps running (not recommended, but it worked), which speaks to the quality of Mac OS X 10.4.x virtual memory (and Parallels connection to […]
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Situated near the storied corner of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was a must see for my baseball fan spouse. Housed with the American Jazz Museum in an open, modern building, the museum is beautifully done. Exhibits include the recreation of a boarding room - players couldn’t stay in […]
A radiant bride in Kansas
Lucy, nee Carrott with new husband Dylan Mayor at the Village Presbyterian Church yesterday. Our best wishes for a wonderful life…
Kansas City
Woke up in Kansas City this AM and jogged along Brush Creek, in a neighborhood full of memorials to Civil War battles (at the scene of McGhee’s charge, Confederate Colonel McGhee and Union Captain Johnson fought hand to hand: McGhee was slain, Johnson was wounded).
The hour-and-15 minute flight from Denver took more than 6 hours […]