Category Archives: vista

Just about to give up on Parallels

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Brian Jepson

Parallels is driving me nuts. If I try to run Vista, it maxes out the CPU constantly, even in the background. In contrast, I’ve had two VMware Fusion VMs (Vista and XP) running in the background all morning, and I … Continue reading →

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Note to Future Self: Causes are Never Obvious

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Brian Jepson

I installed Vista under Boot Camp today, and my Mac wouldn’t boot into Mac OS X afterwards. It was sitting there on the blue screen with the mouse cursor. Of course I blamed it on boot camp at first. I … Continue reading →

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How Long Are You Willing to Wait for that UAC Prompt to Appear?

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Brian Jepson

Anyone who’s talked to me about Vista in the past couple of months knows that I’m impressed with it. And I’ve even been known to say kind things about how Microsoft cleaned up the User Access Control (UAC) prompts in … Continue reading →

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Connecting to Samba from Vista RC1

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Brian Jepson

One of the things that is annoying me about Vista is that I can’t connect to my SMB shares on my Mac. When I try to log in, it rejects my password. I looked at /var/log/samba/log.smbd on my Mac, and … Continue reading →

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Vista Pre-RC1 on MacBook

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Brian Jepson

There’s been a lot of buzz about the Pre-RC1 build of Vista working with Boot Camp. I decided to give it a try, and it was pretty easy. You’ll want to perform a full backup before you try this!!! First, … Continue reading →

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HP OfficeJet d135 and Vista Beta 2

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Brian Jepson

If you’re trying to get an OfficeJet d135 working with Beta 2 of Vista, you’ll probably get an error when you try to install the driver. If, like me, you did an upgrade installation from a previously-working XP installation, your … Continue reading →

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After the Keynotes

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Brian Jepson

After all the news coming out of Macworld and CES, I find I’m thinking less about MacBooks than I am about dual core Intel chips. Over the past few months, my computers have been taking on very specific roles: My … Continue reading →

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