Quick post: yesterday I upgraded from Vmware Fusion 2 on my Mac to 3.0.
I also suffered the widely reported problem where the site could not find my previously registered copy of Fusion 2 and so would not give me the upgrade pricing option. Some broken web pages, and some hours later, I was unexpectedly presented with a page to actually pay for the thing. A little confusing because I wasn’t sure how I had arrived there. Still, I lived the dream and punched in my digits. I let it download overnight.
This morning I checked the instructions for upgrading an existing copy of Fusion in the “Getting Started” manual. No sweat: I just installed the new version and everything was OK.
Fired up my Windows 7 RC VM. First start seemed typically slow, with the scrambled graphics and resizing windows I’m used to seeing when starting Windows 7 in Fusion. Second start of Windows 7 was very fast.
Overall: slightly irritated about the site problems yesterday, but happy that the upgrade was smooth and – to a first approximation – does not seem to have broken anything.
I think the Kindle is a great way to read books, and I enjoy my Kindle 2. There are some definite negatives, especially the DRM on the books – what happens when Amazon decides not to support the format any more? – and now I have found another one.
The power management on the Kindle 2 is definitely under par. The battery drains in a few days, even when the unit is off. It will sometimes warn you that your battery is flat even after you have charged it, because it seems to generate the warning before checking to see if the battery state has changed.
Now, I have found a worse instance of that problem: my Kindle 2 seems to be unchargeable and unusable. The battery had become flat, and the Kindle was displaying a critical battery warning. I charged the Kindle, but when I turn it on it only gets part way through its boot-from-cold process before complaining again of the critical flat battery, at which point it stops doing any thing. The problem is described in a Kindleboards thread but the proposed solution does not seem to work.
What to do?
Update A few cycles of hard power off, charging, turning on etc seemed to fix the issue. Still, the firmware needs updating for sure.
Linux is great for the back end, but has continued to fall down for the consumer desktop because the UI doesn’t quite cut it.
Chrome OS uses the mature and continually developing UI provided by the web browser to fill this lack. No more problems playing video, music etc – the browser can already do that.
