Note: 1 of this post’s 4 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.

Been testing a new search engine http://www.nibbo.com/ so far I like it.

Its really a nice front end on existing search engines so you can search a number of things at the same time.

Finally got round to installing DosBox on my Ubuntu laptop, now I need the time to play Monkey Island.

You've got to love cheap Chinese eBay electronics. If they work that is :)

Finally caved and got a USB 2.0 card for my aging Dell machine.

My first LG "Hello World" application.
Just need to test it on my phone now ;)

I wonder if my Java skills are too rusty to come up with anything useful.

When I'm bored I go and play with the servers.

Thanks to the comment on my previous post I have got the network card on the Windows 7 VM working.

After installing the VMWare tools I had to remove and re-add the "virtual" network card to get it working.

Here it is running our application without problems it seems.

The Windows 7 problems start.....

It can't find a driver for the VMWare's virtual network or sound cards, even although other people haven't had issues with installing it on VM Fusion.

Same on VirtualBox as well.

First install of Fedora 11, pretty painless, joys of a VM I suppose.

VirtualBox guest utils didn't like it, will probably have to hack the install for the new kernel version.

VMWare Fusion lapped it up.

This covers converting from VirtualBox to VMWare not the other way around.
I’ve search the net and all the instructions seemed to be long winded using third party products as a middle step. Things have moved on this might be easy now.

With VirtualBox 2.2.2 you can export your machine as an Appliance using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). The VMWare vCenter Converter 4.0.1 (free download) imports OVF Appliances.

Sounds too good to be true?

Been trying out Opera 10 Beta on my Mac.
So far I'm impressed with it, so much I've made it the default browser for now.
It kick the Safari 4 beta off this spot.