Computers make our lives easier
That is what I say to remind myself of the Truth whenever a computer is in fact making my life more difficult. Which is happening right now since I’ve found a bug in Parallels, the program that is allowing me to run Windows 2000 in a virtual machine on my MacBook. Why do I want to do that? So I can run BaKoMa TeX Word, the true WYSIWYG LaTeX editor so that I can proofread solar physics papers.
And since I rebooted my laptop this morning because it froze, some flag somewhere has reset and won’t let me launch my Windows 2000 virtual machine any more because it thinks that one is already running. I’ve submitted a bug report, but it’s looking like I’ll just have to reinstall the darn thing (there’s a newer build out now anyway).
Grrrr. Wait, I forgot: computers make our lives easier. Computers make our lives easier. Computers make our lives easier…even when they don’t make our lives easier.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:41 am
try vmwarefusion It’s in beta but so far so good, and pretty stable. also FREE !
And yo’rue right computers do make our lives easier, .. except when they really really don’t !
January 25th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Hey, thanks! I knew I could put the question out into the ether and someone would respond!
January 25th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
And here’s an update: I installed VMWare Fusion’s beta product, and so far it’s better than Parallels—thank goodness Parallels failed on me two days before my free trial period wore out! I’ve already uninstalled it.
I can drag and drop files directly between the Mac OS and Windows 2000. I can resize the virtual machine window to any size I like. Of course, the real test will be when (or if, I hope) I have to reboot because something’s dragging the system down. But I’m back in business again, and that’s what matters. I did send my bug report to Parallels, but for now they ain’t getting my money while I’m trying out VMWare Fusion.