Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: reaching network drives through VPNunderXP Pro virtualized by Parallels on Mac OS X?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Dec 2, 2007 12:18 AM, Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I haven't bothered upgrading to Leopard yet - I'll let others work out the
> bugs and then switch.

They have 10.5.1 out already, so I think the show-stoppers are all
gone. Time Machine as a back-up concept is very nice, and I will admit
that I have found "cover-flow" view in finder very useful when I am
looking for a specific image. Safari 3.0 is nice, but you can get that
with 10.4.11. There are more improvements to Preview and TextEdit (a
very under-rated application).

I have never once used Spaces. In the era of tabbed browsing and a
good keyboard interface to navigate among windows, it doesn't add much
for me. Overall, there are a lot of things that are just nicer.

There is one *major* misfeature, which is the new translucent main
menu bar. That was just a horrible idea, and one I really hope they
will revert.

> My iMac is my work computer so it's more important
> that it be stable than have the latest gee whiz features. None of the new
> features are that impressive anyway from what I've read about them.

I don't see anything earth-shattering (oh yeah: terminal got better,
and the default installations of things like ruby are more sensible).

> The Fusion interface is pretty nice. In what ways is Parallels better?

I've only used Parallels, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask. I
was going by what I took net opinion to be.

> If anything I sort of wish that Fusion wasn't quite so oriented towards normal
> people. It's sacrificed some power for ease of use IMO. The only real
> nagging issues with Fusion is that it can act oddly with certain keystrokes
> and mouse combos - evidently if the host OS and guest OS are both trying to
> do something with them.

This is not an easy problem. Parallels lets you specifically capture
the mouse and keyboard in your virtual machine apps and then
deliberately release them. So far that's worked out fine for me.

> Like the ERP software I use (Intuit/Activant
> Eclipse) is retarded and uses the F12 key to go back sometimes and it can
> act oddly in certain situations.

Most uses of F-keys are pretty F-ed up.

> It also annoys me that Fusion won't work as
> a remote console to the virtual machines I have running on my Linux server
> so to access them I have to run VMWare console inside a Linux or Windows VM
> running in Fusion. Doh! I don't suppose Parallels would work for that
> situation either though. :)

So it sounds like you want Fusion to be sort of a VNC tool as well? I
think I can see the usefulness in your case, but I think the two
functions are distinct. Dunno if Parallels would do that.

jking

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