VMware does what it is supposed to do. I have been using it to download programs and other crap from the internet so I don’t get worms and stuff on my desktop computer. Well sure enough the VWware session I have that runs Windows 2000 Pro finally got gator. I just deleted it and copied the fresh VMware session of Windows 2000 Pro that I saved and was up and running in 20 minutes. The only down side was that I had to run the windows update to make sure the OS was fully patched. VMware is so cool.
Windows 2000
Moveabletype, linux, and vmware
I am still a huge fan of Moveabletype. That is of course what currently runs my blog. I want to keep using it running on my Red Hat 9.0 Server I built. The only problem is the place I want to put it in my new apartment requires a wireless connection. My new Win2003 server works fine with Wifi, but I am having trouble finding drivers for the card I got to work with Red Hat. For now the server sits next to my desk, but I don’t want to leave it there. I am trying to hid as much electronic crap as possible from visible sight. I want 1 computer out. And that computer will be my desktop, not my server!
I am playing around with running red hat on VMWare on the Windows 2003 server. I am a huge fan of VMWare, but I have not really been using it to it’s full potential. I started using it allot more this week, and I am finding that I love it even more. The only problem is that I need more ram on my work machine to get it to run really well with more than 1 os running at a time.
But back to my idea. So I had a red hat VMware system already built. I configured apache and threw on moveabletype. I am getting some driver error when I try to start moveabletype’s prep file. I need an expert (friend) to look at it. I am going through my config files to verify things are correct.
To cover my bases I am also installing a Windows 2000 Server instance on VMWare also to play around with moveabletype on windows. I don’t plan to use it, but I want to see if it will work and I don’t want to mess up my system I just built so a vmware instance is the best way to test it. All I need to do is make a backup of the file before doing anything and I have a complete OS backed up. Wednesday at work I took an entire vmware OS file and moved it to a different computer and it worked without doing anything special. That totally ROCKS!
I will post results of my ongoing testing. Hopefully this will work and I can keep moveabletype on red hat and consolidate everything to 1 server and just run the vmware software. I will see.
OK, got the hang of this now!
I guess most people have tons of posts the first time the do this, and then they get fewer and fewer posts per day. Well since this is new to me and I want to get this going, here is yet another post.
I have updated the blogger template to throw the stupid made on a mac icon in there! Now that I know how to modify this template, I can customize it later on. At this stage of the blog I figure I should tell people a bit about myself (even though I donít know who in there right mind would be reading this if they didnít already know me). I am 29 (at the time of this post), I work in the technology field. I guess that means I know a bit about computers. Not to give my whole life history in this post, I will save the other details to later. So I am sitting here on my powerbook writing this blog on a Saturday night. Lame! But I was so tired from work, and going out after work that I decided to just stay in. Tomorrow I am going to a party at my friend rich & Amandaís house. They are throwing an academy award party. Not sure what to expect, but it should be fun. Amanda is a set designer for movies and TV shows. Art designer? Amanda if you are reading this please correct me, and forgive any errorsJ But anyway because of that they are throwing a party for the awards. My thinking is any excuse to get together with friends and have a few drinks is just fine by me.
Today I worked a bit. I preparing to do some major data moves at work. Then I updated quicken, did some shopping and just vegged out in front of the tivo watching stuff I missed this week. I also began to build myself a red hat Linux box at home. I did say I was into computers. The world of Linux and UNIX is something that I have not done much of yet, and I would like to. I finally have a computer to put red hat on and just leave it up. I will give away that I can be considered a computer ìgeekî by the fact that I have a windows 2000 server, red hat server, windows xp desktop, & a mac laptop at home. Sounds excessive, but each has its own function. Really they do! That does not count all the equipment at work. I have come to the conclusion that I will die from the em fields coming off this stuff, so why does one more computer matter!