VirutalBox has guest edition software for Windows and Linux which adds nice features such as mouse pointer integration and integrated windows. Plus, sharing host directories is very easy. These features are available in the other commercial virtual host solutions I’ve looked at.

OS installation was a breeze for the Linux distributions, as I simply downloaded the iso images and mounted it as cdrom for the guest installer to use.

With that action, can create static workflow, or can prompt for all the tags to set.

It all started because I was trying to find the location of the apache root by searching for a file I knew would be there, index.html.. But no matter what I did, Spotlight would not show the files I knew had to be there…

After some trial and error and some Google searching, figured out this was because of something new in Leopard… Only way to search system files is via the finder:

1. enter the search term on the finder window
2. (after the search bar shows up) click the “+” to add search option
3. In first menu, choose “Other …”
4. Choose “System Files” from the list that pops up (and check to place in menu to avoid this step later), click “OK”
5. Now back at the Finder, choose “include” from the second menu

Now you can use this to find all system files

But I finally got fed up with the lame Windows releases and convinced myself that a new iMac was the way to go… So, around Thanksgiving 2007,  I  bought a shiny new 24″ iMac 2.4 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB, 500G….. Ah, life is good once again! Can’t believe how I lasted this long — computer nirvana once again!

Nice little utility which shows the url in the location bar with spaces and colors to emphasize the domainname and decodes the urls for better readability.  Plus mouse-over allows you to select different portions of the URL for moving “up” the page hiearchy.