Now, I don’t mean to be bitchy, but think in your mind of a giant list of all of the things that you might want to run in Parallels on OS X. OK, got it? Now, in your top five, do you have “Ubuntu Linux”? You do?
Then why the hell isn’t it supported in Parallels in a rational way?
What’s even worse is that it won’t even install with the “2.6 kernel” generic Linux profile.
What’s even more worse is that the Parallels forums are full of the normal noise and crap that is typical of any forums. As far as a search for “Ubuntu” on the Parallels forums goes, it’s an unmoderated unauthoratative mess of crazy talk and differing directions, including “run Q instead” which, based on my last evaluation was akin to “poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick” and seemed more like trolling or astroturfing than an actual honest helpful suggestion (since the poster in question has only made three posts in his history, and all of them are “use Q”).
The greatest thing about Q is that it’s not a “search engine optimized” term, so it’s impossible to Google for, and my constant mention of it won’t contribute to its popularity. Q, Q, Q.
But the good news is that I found a reasonable site that summarizes what you need to get through the installation of Ubuntu 7.04 in Parallels which seems to work just jim dandy.
Hint to Parallels: I know you’re optimizing the experience for Windows, but I imagine that Ubuntu would be a good idea to support also.
Testing out the TextMate blogging bundle. TextMate rulez.
So I found out that GeSHi is even smarter than I thought. Check out this Java snippet:
Note the links for the Java classes. Not perfect, but not bad. Automagic.
So a few weeks ago there was some giant event at SourceForge where no one could use developer CVS. For like four days. So congratulations — SourceForge, you now have officially “one nine” uptime for 2006.
I know it’s free. But does that mean it has to suck? I’m sure everyone’s working hard. But it’s not like there’s no money coming in.
The Fink guys are pissed too. I presume there is some market that’s served by poor IT. Now that I have a Dreamhost account, I’m going to manage anything I do going forward through them instead.
I ended up on some ADD fest and found Apples to Oranges and their bar graphing stuff. Sweeet looking.
I figured I’d test a code snippet and see what happens.
That’s a PHP example. How about Objective C:
- (void) drawRect:(NSRect)rect
{
NSLog(@“my drawrect”);
[super drawRect: rect];
}
Outstanding! One issue is that when you specify the “code” tag, you have to use double quotes, and you have to know the random identifier that GeSHi uses (Objective C is “objc”). So for instance:
Won’t work. But:
Works fine.
I’m excited.
Oh, and by the way, I did this with the Code Snippet plugin, which uses GeSHi for syntax highlighting (which seems cool in its own right).
As a kickoff for the stunning blakeramsdell.com domain, I hereby christen this blog “Dangerously Opinionated”. May it only be renamed a hundred times in the future.
