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Okay, it’s POETS day – Press the Space Bar 2000

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Okay, it’s POETS day, and if you are winding down for the weekend, and you’ve got five minutes at you office desk, have you ever visitied the Press the Space Bar 2000 Web site.

It’s simple, you just whack hell out of your space bar, and see how many hits you can get in 5, 10 or 20 seconds. At this point I must point out that I’m not reponsible for any damage caused to your keyboard, by playing this game, so play it at work, and break you office keyboard!! (he he!).

I remember BBC Micros with broken Z,X,@,?, Enter and Space Bar keys after playing Defender, or Chuckie Egg!

oh, and here are my High Scores…

Press the Space Bar 2000 Personal Best

Press the Space Bar 2000 Personal Best

and for that trip down memory lane for a few of you…

Chuckie Egg on the BBC Micro

Chuckie Egg on the BBC Micro

Chuckie Egg on the BBC Micro

Chuckie Egg on the BBC Micro

In the ’80’s my Poppy (Grandfather), loved playing this game! This was the only computer game he played! He was actually very good, but it was quite funny hearing him swear at the computer, you’d often here him say ” b****y chuckie egg!” as he went for a smoke!

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Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan (again!)

Thursday, June 9th, 2011
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Andy at Nagoya Castle, Nagoya, Japan

Lindsey mentioned that people viewing this probably would not have seen the significance on the picture, so here it is again, zoomed in and cut!

and I’ve still not cut the hedge, cut the lawn again, or finished that damn border, it’s been raining….tomorrow (yes tomorrow!) I’ll get round to it!

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Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

As you may or may not know, we had to leave Japan from the Central Japan International Airport, Nagoya and not Narita International Airport, Tokyo because of the earthquake, or because Lufthansa, had decided not to fly from Narita International Airport, Tokyo. So on the penultimate day, we left Tokyo on the bullet train again to Nagoya for one last day and night.

Whilst in Nagoya, we visited Nagoya Castle, and had a very long walk around the Castle Moat, trying to find the entrance, after exiting the tube station! As a taster to the Japan photograhs to come shortly, here’s a photograph that made Lindsey laugh!

Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan

Andy at Nagoya Castle, Japan

(I’ve not really be cloned three times! One is bad enough! I asked Lindsey to take three different exposures, and then I’ve overlaid them for the effect!)

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Goldfinch feeding on dandelion seeds

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Single Goldfinch feeding on Dandelion seeds

Single Goldfinch feeding on Dandelion seeds

I spotted a pair of Goldfinches, land on the ground today, which is unusual and they were feeding plucking the dandelion seeds from a dandelion. You can just make out the dandelion in front of the bird, and one seed floating in the wind.

I quickly lept for my DSLR, and changed to a 300mm lens, hand-held, no tripod, on max, taken through the kitchen window!

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Mac OS X Virtualization Part V – Install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on VMware Player 3.1.4

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Wow, it’s all happening at Apple, iCloud and now Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in July 2011!

OS X Lion coming to a store near you in July 2011

OS X Lion coming to a store near you in July 2011

I’ve just an email reminding me that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, is available from July 2011.  So I thought I’d blog this now.

Oddly, when I try to un Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on VMware Player 3.1.4, I get the following error message!

Mac OS X Lion 10.7 running under VMware Player 3.1.4 'This is not a MAC'

Mac OS X Lion 10.7 running under VMware Player 3.1.4 'This is not a MAC'

More work required, when trying Mac OS X Lion 10.7, I get the error message “The guest operating system is not Mac OS X Server”.

Apple Snow Leopard Software License Agreement (EULA)

It states under Section 2

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.

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Mac OS X Virtualization Part IV – Install Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard on VMware Player 3.1.4

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Mac OS-X-10.6.7 Snow Leopard installed and running using VMware Player 3.1.4

Mac OS-X-10.6.7 Snow Leopard installed and running using VMware Player 3.1.4

You can also use the FREE VMware Player 3.1.4. to also install and run Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard. rather than VMware Workstation 7.1.4. But you’ll not have all the additional features that VMware Workstation 7.1.4 has included. VMware Player can play only one virtual machine at a time. You must close the virtual machine currently running in VMware Player before you can open another, also Snapshots are not supported in VMware Player.

Apple Snow Leopard Software License Agreement (EULA)

It states under Section 2

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.

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Esther by the new hedge border

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Esther got in front of the camera, as I was taking pictures of the new border for the privet hedge!

Esther by the new privet hedge border

Esther by the new privet hedge border

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VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 4.1 U1 testing on VMware Player 3.1.4

Monday, June 6th, 2011
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) installed and operating in VMware Player 3.1.4

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 4.1 U1 installed and operating in VMware Player 3.1.4

So here’s the proof, it’s not a requirement to use VMware Workstation 7.1.4, to install and run VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi). You can use the FREE VMware Player 3.1.4.

It’s also rather interesting is that ESX/ESXi is not a supported operating system, when you select the New Virtual Machine Wizard, there is no ESX Server 4.0 option to select, like with Workstaton 7.0.

But if you use the Easy Install option, it detects the ISO/CDROM as ESX Server 4.0 detected!

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Privet Hedge Maintenance (continued)

Monday, June 6th, 2011

More border clearing today, and tidying under the privet hedge, hopefully tomorrow, the new border will be complete, and I’ll be able to install the water irrigation system that arrived today! (and then it will probably rain!).

Hozelock Soaker Hose 15m

Hozelock Soaker Hose 15m

Hozelock Soaker Hose 15m - unpacked

Hozelock Soaker Hose 15m - unpacked

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Privet Hedge Maintenance

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

After the harsh cold -16 degrees C winter, and the very dry spring, the privet hedge has taken a bashing. So time to give it some tender loving care. As you can see from these pictures, it’s lacking a lot of new growth. We’ve spent the afternoon, marking out a new border, so the lawn is not up to the base of the hedge, and tidy up underneath the hedge, to increase air flow, and later I’ll be installing a water irrigation system to regularly water the hedge everyday. The soil underneath the hedge is bone dry, and then later give the hedge a good feed.

Privet hedge - marketing out new border

Privet hedge - marketing out new border

Privet hedge - marketing out new border

Privet hedge - marketing out new border

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