Archive for September, 2008

VirtualBox

In my last post about virtual machines I talked a little about the two virtualization solutions that I’ve played with on Windows: Microsoft’s VirtualPC and VMware’s VMware Workstation.  Shortly after that post, I came across another virtualization package that nicely bridges the gap between Microsoft’s free-but-feature-poor solution and VMware’s feature-rich-but-not-free solution.  The new contender [...]

September 14, 2008 • Posted in: tech • 2 Comments

Virtual Machines: Application Sandbox

I received an e-mail from my auto insurance agent yesterday containing some forms that I needed to print, sign and return to her.  The forms came attached to the message as a multi-page TIFF image (something I’d never seen before).  I needed to edit some of the pages before I printed them but none of [...]

September 2, 2008 • Posted in: tech • 1 Comment