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Apple, XP, Linux

Posted on 20. May, 2008 by .

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Let me break the news.

I’m on Mac OS X and Windows XP simultaneously – a possibility which I didn’t believe existed I till set this up all myself :) .

Firefox has already replaced Safari on my Mac. Scribefire works all the same. Yahoo messenger works just the same on a Mac.

This week I plan to try out Debian on VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop.

XP running on Mac certainly seems to be missing a few “power things” that a native Windows PC can do. But Mac’s Leopard is an excellent learning platform available today.

I’m still figuring things. Suddenly, I’m overwhelmed by all the new features I have in front of me to learn.

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All is well, even with XP

Posted on 15. Dec, 2007 by .

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I’ve decided to be on XP Professional till my Rapidshare premium account runs out. I have to face it. Rapget can’t be replaced :( . Symantec corporate edition is keeping me secure. My OS is up-to-date. Rapget, uTorrent, Flashget and Feed reader are all working 24 x 7 to fetch me the infomation I need. I have 12,523 posts and 31,584 emails to read. Winamp plays Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. There is this general feeling of well-being well past the Saturday midnight …

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Reading Linux Partition from Windows

Posted on 09. Dec, 2007 by .

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Just so that I am always able to access my data from Linux, even when I’m on XP, I installed this little utility.

http://www.diskinternals.com/download/DiskInternals.zip

It loads the Linux partitions as read-only and lets you copy files from Linux partitions to Windows partitions.

Cool :)

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