Mac at Work (was FreeBSD on Dell C400, and other stuff)

Before upgrading to Hardy Heron, I had successfully set up VMWare player to use the windows partition as its virtual disk. This saves disk space. The problem in Hardy seems to be that it treats IDE drive as SCSI and therefore confuses windows when it is booted in VMWare. The solution to this is to install the vmware SCSI drivers while booted into Windows natively. You can then follow the other guides out there.

With the release of Ubuntu 8.04, I am enjoying improvments made to GNOME 2.22. Among my favorites can be found the international clock with weather. Also, I have started using Tracker search with the deskbar. After I turned on indexing in the GNOME preferences, I rebuilt the tracker index. I also assigned Alt-space as the keyboard shortcut for deskbar. Now I can enjoy most of the functionality found in OS X's spotlight feature in Ubuntu. It is so nice to be able to quickly launch apps, open files, or start e-mails with a quick Alt-space. I also make good use of the Negative plugin for Compiz instead of looking for dark gnome themes. My current favorite is the Mac4Lin theme and the negative plugin. GNOME continues to impress me. Evolution is making good progress. I have successfully connected it to my corporate exchange account and global address book. Things are looking up.