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VMWare Fusion

I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac since it’s beta days, and have been pretty happy with it until now. The biggest qualm I have (with the version I currently have: version 2) is the lack of an appropriate video card driver; playing as well as using it for graphically-intensive games and applications is not doable.

I received an e-mail from Parallels a few weeks – if not a month or so ago – asking me to purchase an upgrade to version 3.0 that “supposedly” has better graphics support. I didn’t like this move of theirs since I purchased version 2.0 for about $50+ not even a year ago. C’mon Parallels! Don’t loyal or beta-days customers get it for free? What the heck?!?

The good news is VMWare just released VMWare Fusion, and is offering a 30-day evaluation (I still use VMWare Workstation for Windows for development and testing). So, I might just switch over.

More on this soon…

How to find the service pack version installed on SQL Server

Run and execute the following query; it doesn’t matter what database and/or table you’re in:

select @@VERSION

If executed successfully, you should get something like below, which shows that SP2 is installed.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86)   Feb  9 2007 22:47:07   Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation  Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

Researchers hack into iPhone via Web

image Yowza! The iPhone can be hijacked? Tsk, tsk, tsk…not good, but not surprising either. Nowadays, more and more companies try to release more while downplaying quality – quantity over quality, which is a shame.

I’m not saying all corporations do this, but in general, yes they do. Apple should’ve spent more time testing this kinda stuff, rather than deploying early. But as they say, “strike while the iron is hot.”

I believe it comes down to the economics and logistics of the business culture in the twenty-first century.