Windows woes
No answer on the Outlook problems….
I got extra memory and an extra disk for Aphrodite, to be able to install VMWare ESXi. The new disk was prepared to hold this software, and it took some while that I found out I had to use Demeter – the laptop – to access the machine, but what was worse, I couldn’t use the drives on Aphrodite: I could install the system software (Windows XP and Ubuntu Desktop) only using Demeter’s DVD drive. And it took far too long, so finally I gave up, and re-initiated the drive to hold both data partitions I had set up before; the two on the primary disk now became free to do a ree-install of Windows XP and do a Ubuntu intstall. Both succeeded, and have been updated to latest standards. I didn’t install Office – yet. I think I’ll move to Linux for most of the normal office job and keep the Windows installation for whwn I really need it. Or run it in emulation on Linux 😉
Anyway, the alternative installation of Windows now contains all latest free MS stuff: IE8 (beta 2), Silverlight, Live mail and messenger, and of course, McAfee virus protection and firewall. More to come there, since the normal installation has more weird and unexpected issues every time: lost USB devices, problems in connection to other Diana; hangs of Word and Excel. But none of the scanning software: Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D nor Windows Defender find somnething that shouldn’t be there…
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center