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February 2010 Archives
While perusing my site usage today, I found something interesting in my Mac OS usages. Check this out. 
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Look at the very bottom of that chart. PPC 10.6. My first thought was "What is that? Snow leopard is intel only!" Then I remembered something. For the brief moments that we had our PowerPC XServe set up as a leopard server, it reported itself over FTP to be a 10.6 machine, long before 10.6 came out. Even now, with Tiger server, some components report to be 10.5 components. So, whatever google analytics is looking at on these PowerPC XServes, that component is a small part of Snow Leopard. If you see this, it is possible, so don't think someone has made a PPC port of Snow Leopard. It hasn't happened.
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My only solution was to migrate to Parallels 5. I installed this, and it imported the .vdi disk just fine. No problems, and no questions asked. As far as I could tell, everything was going swimmingly. That was until I started up windows in Parallels.
I turned on the VM, and immediately had problems. Windows was deactivated, and it wouldn't come back to life because it said that my windows key had been activated too many times. Well, there's an easy fix for that. Call the Activation Hotline, and tell the computer that answers that you went through a major hardware change. It reads out to you a new activation confirmation code, and windows activates just fine. And then, Parallels installed Parallels tools automatically and everything just worked.
Bottom line is: If your happy with VirtualBox and have no reason for switching, save yourself the trouble and stick with what works. But, if you have the strong urge to have that shiny new and speedy Parallels 5, then go for it. But don't blame me if things break; you have been warned of the troubles it can bring.
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I just today upgraded to MT5. The dashboard takes a little getting used to, but other than that, it's almost exactly the same as MT4. There's just one thing that I don't like about it. So far as I can tell, the Keywords field is gone. It's just not there. Plus, they moved the publish button, and all the tags and stuff. I'll post a better review when I start to look deeper into it, to look out for more!
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