Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "trackback" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+trackback" bit from the end of the URL.
Antivirus and Progress
It looks like the lockups in the XP image weren't entirely the fault of XP itself. I started seeing the same pattern of pegging the processor and hammering the hard drive in the other windows virtual machines.
Googling led me to believe that the problem might be with the AVG antivirus I have been using.
I downloaded samples of Avira Antivir and Antivir server and loaded them into the 2003 server and Win7 images after uninstalling the AVG tools, and things seem to be behaving much better. It will be a day or two before I know for sure whether the lockups are gone, but the disk isn't running constantly, and it is nice to have reasonable keyboard and mouse response again.
Uninstalling AVG was ugly: I had to reboot the Win 7 image about 4 times to get the uninstall to take.
In other news, I'm now doing my TomTom updates from the 2003 image. The Win 7 one can't see the GPS, probably because the VmWare tools module is tuned to 2008 server rather than Win 7 itself.
And Samba on Ubuntu seems thoroughly hosed. I'm trying an installation of a newer version, which I will try to reconfigure from scratch. I really need to mount a share from the ubuntu server to get the Rational tools installed on the new image, though I have some ideas for workarounds. It's very annoying: samba worked fine on ubuntu before the 9.04 updates, and I can't find anything in google that explains what has changed. The next ubuntu update in at the end of this month... I hope they have fixed whatever the problem is in 9.10.
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