Alex is pretty much walking walking now. I think his record is about 2 dozen steps before falling or grabbing on to something. He’s also getting more reliable at pro-actively signing what he wants at us (food, water, milk, more, come). He definitely understands those words and signs. He’s also much better at dealing with drop-offs such as couches, beds, and stairs. Some times we have to sign / tell him to turn around, but he mostly does that on his own.
I hereby declare that the opposite of [heart] is [liver] since it produces bile.
I’m getting tired of all the security crap running on my computer. Windows Defender, Anti-Virus, Firewall, regular anti-spyware scans. I’m tempted to disable everything except the firewall and take my chances. The number of programs that run on startup is also annoying. Do I need a separate BlueTooth program to run, or can I just go with what the OS gives me? Ditto the touchpad driver? Gah!
Run your “unsafe” browsing and other activities in VMs that you RDP/VNC/xterm to. If it gets infected, throw the whole VM away and spin up another. Alternately, set the VM to never save its state (doesn’t work too well for general use though, because of installers, etc).
Kramer: I’ve been thinking of that, but I’m running out of space on my laptop. I think I have to give up on the idea of running Linux or pare down my music collection for that to happen. What would be really nice would be the ability to run a VM based on the installed copy of XP. Basically, make my operating system read-only.
Buy a bigger drive, partition it, dd the existing drive to the new one, and bingo, tons of space. Then you should be able to do the same thing to copy your existing install to the VM, though you’ll need to do the sysprep thing to blow away the SIDs, etc. I can’t imagine that the VM hard drive isn’t just a block device like any other hard drive partition. (I know that’s not exactly what you said you wanted, but it’s pretty close…)