salaud speaks

The apprentice asked his master, how do we exit this awful existence? Master said: You must click start to shutdown.

I have VMWare Server 2.0 running on an Ubuntu Intrepid host with a Windows 2003 Server guest OS. The network speed, evidenced by SAMBA/SMB connections, was a crawl compared with other XP guests. I scratched my head for a long time. THE SOLUTION: Change the guest VM “Number of Processors” setting from 2 to 1. Network speed goes back to expected speed.

Micro$haft does not have the best of breed product in any field. It has pretty much the worst in most. It’s really a wonder. I have been supporting their products in one way or another for 20 years. I can honestly say that IBM PC DOS was a much better DOS [...]