I’ve just finished playing with MacOSX Tiger (10.4.1) under VMWare! I added a couple of speed tweaks (getting rid of the ACPI kernel module, removing the floppy/USB controllers and setting the VM guest type to Linux->Other) and it works pretty well considering there are no VMWare Tools to speed up graphics or anything.

Luckily my P4 has SSE2/PAE, although it doesn’t have SSE3 to speed things up more.

I even got networking working using the Maxxuss driver, happily surfing away using Safari (Camino and Firefox wouldn’t load due to missing libraries or something).

Here’s a life hint for you – when shopping for mouthwash, be sure not to get disenfectant instead!

I had a bit of an ulser in my mouth so thought I’d get some mouthwash to sooth it a bit, but was rushing around Tesco’s and just grabbed the green bottle in with the toothpaste and stuff without reading the label properly.

So last night I had a very painful mouth, as skin was flaking off my gums and lips, this morning it doesn’t hurt so much but is swollen so I can’t open my mouth very wide, and my lips look very dehydrated. The ulser is the least of my problems now!

I’ve just burnt four DVD+R DL discs, the first one was a coaster, it seems NeroLinux is a bit crap, the other three were fine when I used k3b. They read OK on my BenQ and NEC drives, as well as the Xbox surprisingly – helped by the BitSetting no doubt. I shall try them on the laptops later.

I don’t think I’ll waste the 75p a throw discs on movies, but they’re very handy for backups when 4.3Gb really isn’t enough (DL provides just over 8Gb, 8.5Gb in theory, but that’s what they say about 4.7Gb SL’s….) BTW, they were Ricoh JPND01-002’s and burned at 8x on the NEC7173.

I just saw on the news that Shilpa (or whatever her name is, as Jade would say) has just won Celebrity Big Brother, what a crock!

So the way to win now is to accuse the housemates of being racist, then when the sponsors start leaving get forced by Channel4 to say it was all a big mistake, or maybe bridbed with a win if you calm down perhaps….?

Well I expect Jade and the show are ruined now anyway, but at least the failing Bollywood star got another fifteen minutes of fame.

Just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.1. Not many new features it seems, but lots of bug/security fixes. I updated my plugins and the theme doesn’t seem to have broken like previous updates.