Two words - “DOS prompt”. Get comfortable and back to your 1980’s roots ! You will need to get familiar with the UNIX shell commands. It’s actually not that hard, or at least it has not been a great stress for me but perhaps that is because there was UNIX somewhere, way back in [...]

One thing you will most likely need is the ability to share folders form the “host” OS to the “guest”. In my case, one of my test machines has WinXP2 as the host and I have SUSE as my guest. If it were Windows as the guest, then this is pretty easy, you just “browse [...]

I’m traveling today (daytrip between Boston and DC) and the weather in the northeast is not cooperating. Thus, I have *lots* of airport time.
When I took this job, they told me to “get a Blackberry” because it’s what most of the team uses. Get lots of minutes and while you are at it, add the [...]