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Jan. 25th, 2009 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaRocknerd: Microsoft employees give up all hope.
NotN: click the last seven or so items in the feed. Photo: the same. I know, I should LJ more often.
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ewtikins for organising money to move the younger teenager's piano here! WE LOVE YOU ALL.
Quotidian domesticity continues. The younger teenager is enjoying the new school and new friends. The older teenager should be put somewhere in reasonable order.
Windows 7 works well enough on this laptop in a 512MB VirtualBox if I take care not to be running anything else whatsoever. I'm not running an antivirus. Uses power like nobody's business, though. Very pretty. Can't get it to see the Samba share on the host machine, which is a little annoying.
arkady gets a medal for valour for taking Freda to the dentist. Freda's chipped a tooth and it will require work. (Removing milk teeth before their time is inadvisable as then there may not be room for the adult teeth.)
redcountess has started seeing a physio for her fibro, who's worked out an exercise programme for her.
Off to the Pembury this evening with nyecamden. You?
Update: Beat networking into halfway behaving and got my first Windows 7 blue screen! In win32k.sys, when watching a DivX AVI over the network in VLC. Sound doesn't work either.
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Date: 2009-01-25 02:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-01-25 02:45 pm (UTC)Now I get to go and do battle with the beasts of Windows file'n'print sharing for a neighbour. The joys, the joys. After that, sleep for a week before Extreme Pintage next weekend!
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Date: 2009-01-25 03:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-25 03:40 pm (UTC)My decision to actively shun spodings is forever reinforced by crap like that.
I'm thinking (because while I don't pay 100% attention I may have missed it) that she's in the 18-24 month bracket and had a "Hey-Guyz-Lookit-what-mylegz-can-do---oops where's my head going?" incident?
My sister had two of those. One at the same age, one a little later in life. Neither was pleasant, one was bloody. She has the scars from both.
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Date: 2009-01-25 03:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-25 03:47 pm (UTC)They're kids.
They're as dumb as a bag of woodchips at times.
Hopefully she'll have learnt her lesson. If not, upload the video to YT with an amusing soundtrack.
You might win a JVC VCR. Zombie Graham will deliver it personally.
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:03 pm (UTC)They're as dumb as a bag of woodchips at times.
Agreed. I'm a preschool teacher and I see bright kids do incredibly stupid things every day. They put beans up their noses, run with scissors, drink soapy water out of the water table and perform a myriad of foolish acts. The other day I told a coworker of mine that sometimes it's like a preschool version of Jackass. She laughed so hard she had to go sit down.
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:08 pm (UTC)That's surely the simile of the day. (LJ doesn't like the spelling of it, but I'm 77% sure it's right).
Of course, my allusion reminds me of the time my dad took me to the port to play on the piles of woodchips. Looking back on it: probably not safe. But then we used to wonder in the bush as far as we felt like it and kids (pre-eight) and no one kept and eye on us, so it may have been a special time.
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-25 04:13 pm (UTC)Back from the Pembury already?
You have not seen me with kids, have you?
I am... the kind of person will shout at them if they take scissors to a cat's fur, but will watch them take a headplant, backwards, off a couch while wondering at which point I should get a Responsible Parent. While looking for some sort of gag or exit strategy for the inevitable crying.
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-25 04:23 pm (UTC)That's 255 minutes past beer'o'clock and, hell, it has been Australia Day for more than an hour here.
Hie thee to Kangaroo Court! There are flags to wave, Lebs to bash and... flags to wave... Fireworks to get drunk to!
You got out before the car flags, right? It's depressing.
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-01-25 09:55 pm (UTC)Good to see you this evening; sorry I was too exhausted to do more than bounce half-heartedly about my results from this afternoon. There is a brain in my head somewhere but it goes into hiding when I make it work too hard.
RE: Can't get it to see the Samba share on the host machine
Date: 2009-01-26 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: Can't get it to see the Samba share on the host machine
Date: 2009-01-26 08:04 pm (UTC)I worked around it by exporting /home on the host machine itself instead of getting VirtualBox to fake it.
VirtualBox is actually rather shoddy as VMs go, and is good reason to avoid Sun xVM like the plague. I'm quite surprised more stuff doesn't break.
Re: Can't get it to see the Samba share on the host machine
Date: 2009-01-26 08:43 pm (UTC)If you are indeed using a SAMBA share, using NAT on your interface may be screwing up SAMBA. SAMBA shares may be more sensitive to translation than, say, NFS exports.
If you want SAMBA shares, I'd suggest either changing from NAT to "Internal Network" if your topology allows (e.g., you have a NAT router upstream somewhere). Alternatively, you can simply add an additional "Host Access" mode NIC to your VM. Then, the VM can access the internet via NAT and the host SAMBA shares via the Host Access NIC.
Of course, if you're really just wanting Shared Folders to work, you'll have to wait for proper driver support in the OS your virtualizing.
Re: Can't get it to see the Samba share on the host machine
Date: 2009-01-26 08:48 pm (UTC)