Joel Hainley : San Francisco Bay Area Software Consultant

I’m still feeling under the weather but I was able to get a weight workout in today. Hopefully I can get this going through Sunday and actually take my schedule break. We’ll see tomorrow’s cardio workout is gonna be a bear if I don’t start feeling better. On the upside I found a great package of dried fruit at Costco tonight. Blueberries, cranberries, cherries, and something else. I’ve been looking for something to throw on my breakfast cereal in the morning. Hopefully it tastes as good as it sounds right now, I need to quit shopping when I’m hungry.

Weight training day:

• curls - (15×3)
• military press - (15×3)
• dumbbell rows - (15×3)
• bench press - (15×3)
• pullups - none tonight…hey!, it’s consistent with my previous results so far this month

Today I got up late and go busy with work and some other things so I wasn’t able to get out for a run. So I opted to just do my cardio on the bicycle in the evening. I worked up a good sweat but it wasn’t as intense as last week’s workouts on the bike. Not sure what’s going on, it’s possible that I’m a little burned out. I’m looking forward to taking sunday off and heading out to sf for SHDH.

Cardio Day:

Bicycle Ride - (30m2s/360kcal)

Weight training day :

• crunches - (25×5)
• leglifts - (25×4)
• bench press - (15×3)
• military press - (15×3)
• curls - (15×3)
• dumbbell rows - (15×3)
• pullups - still trying to get that first one, but i’m getting closer…how embarrassing.

I have been using vmware to host specialized development and testing environments for various clients. With a reasonably powerful machine there isn’t a perceptible difference between a vm and a native install for your workstation plus it offers an impressive amount of flexibility for things. Backups are a snap, moving development environments around can be exciting as well. Thus far it has been a huge win.

I just installed a windows xp vm on my laptop and while my Debian install automagically setup the correct resolution, I wasn’t able to set the xp vm to a widescreen resolution within the vm. So I dug around and found that simply opening the file <yourvmname>.vmx and adding the following lines :

svga.maxWidth = “1680″
svga.maxHeight = “1050″

Save the file. Then reboot the vm. Go into the display settings in the vm and set it to the desired resolution, that’s all there is to it.

The one thing that I don’t know for sure is whether you need to have the VMTools installed for this to work. However I think the VMTools make the vm a little more useful on the desktop so it’s probably worth installing them.