So Donald is throwing a
holiday party at his place at noon on Monday. Why Monday and not Sunday
beats me. I don't think he works Sunday and half of us work Monday so
it's really a mystery. I'll probably skip work and go since he asked me
personally to attend. Something about a surprise for Rowe.
He's going on vacation and will be gone New Years. You know, I wanted
to run that day. Start off fresh and just power through my campaign.
I'll have to relax the "everybody has to be there" condition. Probably
if I can keep the adventure contained to one session then it would be
ok if I had different people. I still want people to enjoy the full
adventure so I may have to skip around a bit.
I've been feeling a bit sick lately. Well not so much sick as coming
down with something. I smell sick. Certain times I can smell myself
getting sick. I'm either putting out some weird body odor or my sense
of smell goes a bit haywire. It's not a medicine, just sort of a... I
don't know how to describe it.
I installed Virtual PC. Windows 2000 started up fine. I installed some
patches and had many many more patches left to install. Then I set
Virtual Switch on (which means the PC has a separate IP address instead
of sharing the host's IP address) and then Windows 2000 died. I just
couldn't get it started again. I tried reinstalling but at best it
boots up once, goes through the easy set up, then dies on the reboot.
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Quite annoying. I'm not too
sure what happened. I hope that I can fix it by upgrading Virtual PC
when I get the upgrade. Otherwise I'm probably going to have to
reinstall Mac OS X and get it to a new state. Which I'd rather not do
since I'm going to wipe out everything and reinstall when Mac OS X 10.4
comes out and I don't want to go through that twice.
Meanwhile when Virtual PC was working it was pretty nice. Slow but way
cool. Mousing around and clicking buttons was fairly responsive. Actual
processing was slow but not unbearable. For work I'd want to use it for
compiling programs (I can probably do editing in Mac OS X if I use the
shared folders feature so that both OSes can see the same folder) in
C++ which would be ok.
Running the C++ telephony adapter would be very slow. But if Virtual
Switch works I can run all servers in Mac OS X except the one server
that is C++ so it shouldn't be too bad. I wouldn't want to run a full
ICSM on Virtual PC. And really I think that's all I need for work.
Maybe JDeveloper but theoretically I can run that on Mac OS X -- it's
just the environments JDeveloper connects to are all PC based.
Outside of work I've mentioned running GURPS Character Assistant. Also
Heavy Metal Pro to generate Mech designs, especially once my players
start modifying their Mechs. Can't really think of anything else that
is PC only and CPU-light enough to run on Virtual PC.
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