Author: Ian

I finally got vista build 5342 installed.
I start off trying to us vmware server and it would blue screen before entering the serial number.
I then borrowed the only dvd drive on the floor which is in my computer to perform an install on an old dell GX150. This got me as far as entering the serial number and selecting the disk but it kept coming back saying no suitable disk was found. I ran through the various hard disk in my cube and tested them, out of the 3 I found a 120 gig drive that hadn’t been pulled out due to a failure. I dropped this into a slightly newer compaq desktop and the boot hung before getting to the serial prompt. After letting the disk boot I realised it came out of a box that had a BSD install. After using an XP install cd to nuke the BSD partition and recreate it as an NTFS partition I now have vista running and joined to a test domain. I don’t see any huge differences in the core OS. It does have a large number of new apps IE7, a callendar app, Windows Collaboration, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Photo Gallery, windows defender and media center. So it looks like there are taking a lot of pointers from OSX

An interesting view on illegal immigration from National Review Assuming the statistics are correct illegal immigrants cost federal and local government money and converting them to a legal status will cost the country more money since they will be able to claim more benefits. The interesting part is that you are only able to claim benefits if you are permanents resident. If you are on a non immigrant visa then you can’t claim things like unemployment benefits food stamps etc.

So I wonder if anyone on the hill has done the math on how much it will cost to legalize the illegals.

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https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2105404,00.html

Across Scotland, smokers resigned themselves to the new restrictions. John Mckenzie, 80, a veteran of the Korean War and a smoker for 60 years, said in a pub on Dumbarton Road, Glasgow: I never thought Id see the day when a simple pleasure like having a fag with your pint would be against the law.

The only thing that is likely to get up people’s noses is the smell: without the smoke to cover it up, most drinkers will suddenly realise that, after eight pints of beer, their odours are far from attractive and unlikely to win them success at “smirting” — the new craze of smoking and flirting which is expected to give a lift to many a jaded love life outside pub doors.

This is funny since I noticed the same thing in a non smoking bar in Baltimore, you can smell the farts across the bar.

I discovered why my vmware server virtual machines were running so slow. In Vitual Machine Settings, options, advanced there is a little ticket box that says run with debugging. I missed this since you can only change it when the VM is not running. Now my Asterisk and Windows XP VMs are running super fast.