VMware Fusion in Snow Leopard

(this is from mail I sent last night about my Snow Leopard install)

Seems to work ok. This is 32 bit snow leopard though.

Couple of weirdnesses -- I unthinkingly didn't actually shut down my guests before upgrading, I just suspended them. I did the snow leopard install and vmware fusion 2.0.5 upgrade, and then restarted the XP guest, and got a warning saying that the video drivers might be screwed up until I rebooted the guest. I dismissed the warning, it didn't seem to have any effect at all. Later I rebooted the guest and there was no more warning. Ubuntu didn't complain at all.

I did upgrade the VMware tools in the XP guest also.

The handoff of the mouse pointer between the host and the guest is slightly broken. If I kind of ease into the guest's screen, it works. If I try to do it fast, sometimes it doesn't catch, or the pointer just gets stuck, or the pointer disappears. Hitting control-cmd to release the pointer and then moving the mouse again fixes it.

If I disconnect my USB serial port from the VM (which happens in my normal workflow sometimes) the Mac now helpfully notices that a USB port has become available that I probably want to run TCP/IP over, and asks me if I want to configure that. Every time. Also it did when I booted the machine (I don't know if it will ask me when I reboot... maybe.) So this magic detection of networks running over USB might be an annoyance. It is pretty clear that the USB port that has a tty device driver installed on it is not going to be used as a network device, or I wouldn't have installed a tty device drive manually on it already.

It is nice that my tty device driver from Leopard actually still worked though.

So I seem to be able to work.

Someone should do that

marriedtothesea.com

Destruction

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
-- George Orwell, 1984

Bit of market wisdom

This is about right, from experience.

Reacting to data and market releases: (Zerohedge.com)

weak data = Fed ease, stocks rally
consensus data = lower volatility, stocks rally
strong data = economy strengthening, stocks rally
bank loses $4bln = bad news out of the way, stocks rally
oil spikes = great for energy companies, stocks rally
oil drops = great for the consumer, stocks rally
dollar plunges = great for multinationals, stocks rally
dollar spikes = lowers inflation, stocks rally
inflation spikes = will inflate all assets, stocks rally
inflation drops = improves earnings quality, stocks rally

The kilogram is busted

This Kilogram Has A Weight-Loss Problem (NPR)

I was just doing air travel the last few days

toothpastefordinner.com

I wonder how they did that

marriedtothesea.com

Your Quaoar news source

An update from Wikipedia about our friend Quaoar:

The discovery of a satellite of Quaoar was reported in IAUC 8812 on 22 February 2007.[15][16] The orbit of this satellite has yet to be determined. The satellite was found at 0.35 arcsec from Quaoar with magnitude difference of 5.6.[17] Assuming an albedo similar to that of the primary the magnitude suggests a diameter of 95 ± 24 km.[16] Brown believes it is likely to be a collisional fragment of Quaoar, which he speculates lost much of its ice mantle in the process.

Brown has left the choice of a name up to the Tongva, who have reportedly chosen the sky god Weywot, son of Quaoar. However, the Tongva have yet to formally inform Brown or the IAU of their decision.[18]

Full page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50000_Quaoar