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Archive for July, 2009

27 Jul, 2009

Myrtle Beach area VMUG – Aug 6

Posted by: Philip In: HTC

I blogged previously about a ‘local’ VMUG in Wilmington, NC, but since then, I received word of a VMUG much closer to home.  The first meeting for a Myrtle Beach VMware Users Group will be held on Aug 6 from 12 until 2 pm at Barefoot Resort in North Myrtle Beach.  Me and several of [...]

20 Jul, 2009

VMworld 2009 is coming up soon

Posted by: Philip In: VMworld| Virtualization

Its a little over a month prior to VMworld 2009 in San Francisco.  I recieved my approvals from work and I’ll be attending again this year and I’m anticipating a great conference with lots of great material to bring back.  I am patiently waiting for my notification that we can begin registering for sessions and [...]

Yeah, seems like today is a day of #fail for me.  I realize today scanning over my blog content that I’ve all but abandoned my new buddy Moneywell.  Its very close to a month since I used it last and although I really like the software, its different and I’m having troubles with that.  I [...]

20 Jul, 2009

Visual Voicemail problems – self inflicted!

Posted by: Philip In: Apple

So, I have been suffering from a self-inflicted visual voicemail problem.  Its been going on for a month; but I only discovered it last night.   I may have tried the Internet tethering work-around for the iPhone which apparently changed my voicemail network settings on the iPhone.  I had to go in and manually enter [...]

Quicken has again pushed back its release date for Quicken Financial Life for Mac, now anticipating its release in February of 2010 .  This is about the third time that Quicken has pushed back the release of this new software.  It was originally debuted (in much the same form as today) back in January, 2008, [...]

09 Jul, 2009

What’s missing in Chrome OS?

Posted by: Philip In: Google| Internet

Following up on my earlier post about Chrome OS, I got to thinking.  Google has GMail for email, Talk for chat, Google Docs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, and a slew of other cloud based apps.  But what is missing from their portfolio and therefore missing in Chrome OS?  I know we don’t know [...]

Making the statement that all you need to run today is now online, Google has introduced it own OS – dubbed Chrome OS and largely based around its Chrome web browser.  Its a bold statement where thick-clients are still the de-facto standard.  But it comes at a time where online applications like GMail and Google [...]


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I'm a systems administrator for America's largest telephone cooperative, HTC, in Conway, SC. I primarily focus on Windows servers, VMware virtualization, and blades for the co-op. I'm a VMware VCP. My true passion is for Macs and all things Apple.

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