Who is the Noob TJR9898

tjr9898 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:03:20 GMT

This initial post is a get to know me. To be honest this is my first blog I have created. So lets start.

My education regarding computer technology is straight from the School of Hard Knocks. I was the kid that was a jack of many trades and a competent user of none. Lets not even suggest a master of none. I've crashed computers, reinstalled OSes, failed to reinstall OSes, infected computers with viruses, etc. However, I love trying something new and want to get to the end as quickly as possible.

This brings me to VMware. I believe that some focus on maintaining a clean host OS will allow me to be the screw up I am on some VMs. I also believe that as I venture forward I need to be able to talk intelligently about cloud computing.

So what am I doing today you ask. I just bought a new laptop because I was a little too rough with the last. I'm a broke college kid so I got a cheap commodity Gateway. The specs include:

Gateway T-6330u
Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1
Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T3200
1MB L2 Cache, 2GHz, 667 MHz FSB
3 GB DDR2
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
with up to 384 MB of Dynamic Video Memory

The first thing I did when I started the computer was make sure the firewall was on and then immediately went to VMware.com. I downloaded VM Workstation 6.5 evaluation. I do intend to buy the package but like I said I am a broke college kid who can't currently fiance it.

My intentions are to:

create a slim host OS with the original Vista
maintain a Vista VM with all of my work software
maintain a Vista VM were I play with new software
create a VM of the beta Windows 7
create a VM of the popular Ubuntu linux distro

In addition I'm an Aries, I like the show Chuck, franchise Stargate, and comic Ironman. Well now that you know me better than most, time to get back to screwing up my first attempt at creating a VM.

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