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I am excited. Very excited! This MacBook Air is my first (real) Mac and the timing couldn’t have been better. Over the last few years I’ve owned a lot of different computers and they always used to have Windows installed. My work requires me to run Windows somewhere, although I often prefer some alternative operating systems on the side. My last few laptops  contained a dual boot system with Linux, meaning I always had to save my work, restart my laptop before I could do serious stuff (for instance directly connect my laptop to the internet using a customer’s cable modem – stuff that Windows is not really good at, to put it mildly).

Lots of reboots later, I decided it was time for a change. Maybe desktop virtualisation (well, laptop virtualisation). Something like the very thin and sexy hypervisor Citrix XenClient is, allowing me to run both Windows and Linux at the same time. The problem with that was, that XenClient’s HCL wasn’t that extensive and besides: the laptop I had didn’t have proper processor support for it and I wasn’t sure I was going to get one of the laptops off the XenClient HCL. Not to speak of the (lack of) matureness of XenClient. Continue reading →

Yesterday, I was at the golf course, doing a Google Apps migration. A young boy sat down next to me during a coffee break at the club house.

I asked: “So… Do you have a handicap?”
He replied (without blinking his eyes): “Yes, sir. 11”
I: “And how old are you?”
He: “12, sir”
I wanted to tease him a bit and said: “Well, ok. It’s good you’re still young, so you have lots of time to work on a decent handicap”

He said nothing, just nodded his head.
I finished my café au lait.

Well, there you have it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I’m off to bed, now. Have to get up early tomorrow. I imagine waking up tomorrow and… the world will be out of IPv4 addresses. That feels weird! Good night.

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