I ran into a situation where I had a large (12gb) vmdk file that only needed to be about 2gb. There are no tools built into VMware Workstation for reducing vmdk size, although there is one for expanding (vmware-vdiskmanager). Here are some simple steps I used to reduce the size of my vmdk using all [...]
I’m on a little kick right now to surgically remove myself from Windows dependency. I’m running a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine and trying to do everything I possibly can without Windows. Amazingly it is working out quite well. No special reason why I chose Ubuntu over the other distros, it just what I [...]
Yesterday I discovered pandora.com. I had been told about it before but never tuned in but now I’m hooked. Pandora is an Internet Radio provider that learns what kind of music you like as you listen. You flag songs you like and reject ones you don’t and over time it dials into [...]