The ThinkPad received an OS upgrade this weekend. Not to Windows Vista, but to a brand new installation of Ubuntu instead. XP, while quite nice and serviceable, was simply running too slow, even after a fresh install back in October, and I really didn’t feel like re-installing again or worse, upgrading to Vista.
It was a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Parallels’
Whither Microsoft?
Why Is Mac (kinda) Happy?
Because it hasn’t crashed since I upgraded to Parallels 4.0 in November. Very nice.
However, I now have a green, 1-pixel wide, vertical line running up the right side of the LCD that appeared out of nowhere one day. That I can actually live with; the random reboots, I cannot.
Still, I have a 3-year warranty on [...]
Mac Crash
It’s Parallels again.
I had just launched Visual C# when Mac froze for a moment, Parallels crashed, and the screen wiped gray with this lovely dialog box in the center:
Upon restart, Mac mocked me further:
As if I needed to be reminded.
Parallels is useful, but it sure blows sometimes.
Random Mac
Mac has been running great since I had the hard drive replaced a few months ago. No more lengthy pinwheel spinning and not a single flashing question mark folder in all those days.
However, Mac did perform a random reboot tonight, which when it happens is a bit startling. Thinking back, I believe it’s done it [...]
