* Gearhead: Outlook to iCal but not automatically * Backspin: Refurb and spam headaches * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Outlook to iCal but not automatically
Is it too much to ask? All I want to do is to extract new calendar items from Outlook in iCal format every day at a set time. The reason for this is I am planning to buy a big, new Mac Pro (dual 3.0GHz quad core, dual graphics cards, 8GB RAM — yes, greed is an ugly, ugly thing) so that I can run VMware Fusion to host guest operating systems (including multiple copies of XP and Vista) alongside OS X, which is now my favorite desktop environment.
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Backspin: Refurb and spam headaches
What a couple of weeks it’s been! We’re having the kitchen refurbished so I have plumbers, builders and painters waltzing in and out interrupting me every five minutes. I’m keeping the aspirin close at hand and perhaps it is the added stress that is making me particularly irritated by spam again.
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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Another Vista Defection
This time it’s Jim Louderback, former editor of “PC Magazine” — a man who used to be a staunch Micro$ofty:
I’ve been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn’t work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly… The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain’t cutting it…
Will Torvalds Sue VMWare?
Seems VMWare’s premier product uses an illegal hack of an unsupported Linux kernel as a bootloader. This issue has been raised before and ignored, but that was then and this is Day IPO+1. Quoting a post from VentureCake:
Is VMware a derived product of Linux? Unless vmkernel can be loaded without the Linux kernel, it would appear so. VMware was developed from another, long ago OS created as a research project, but it’s unclear whether vmkernel was ported from that OS or rewritten as the Linux-requiring binary blob…
Backing Up is Hard to Do
It doesn’t have to be that way, and we all know backups are like machine guns — better to have one and not need it than to need it and not have it.
