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	<title>The Grubbsian &#187; Mac</title>
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		<title>MacBook Pro &#8220;Bluetooth Not Available&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Grubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me just say that I can&#39;t wait for Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X).&#0160; I&#39;m looking forward to the increased stability and performance promised by the Steve.&#0160; I&#39;m especially interested in better multi-proc support as I&#39;m constantly in and out of a Windows VM and I&#39;m hoping that activity will be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me just say that I can&#39;t wait for Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X).&#0160; I&#39;m looking forward to the increased stability and performance promised by the Steve.&#0160; I&#39;m especially interested in better multi-proc support as I&#39;m constantly in and out of a Windows VM and I&#39;m hoping that activity will be a little more smooth on a faster host OS.</p>
<p>I generally find Leopard to be very stable and haven&#39;t had too many issues but I do occasionally run into issues with the Bluetooth device not responding.&#0160; Intermittently the menu bar icon just says &quot;Bluetooth Not Available&quot;.&#0160; It seems mostly to happen after connecting or disconnecting certain USB devices to the machine.</p>
<p>After hunting for a solution I came across this Apple <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US">support document</a>.&#0160; It seems like a bit heavy handed, and I&#39;m not exactly sure why:<em> &quot;Over time, the settings in the System Management Controller may become<br />
unusable, which can result in operational anomalies with the computer.</em>&quot;</p>
<p>However, it solved my problem and I&#39;m once again mousing away with my fantastic <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=103">Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 500</a>, which I highly recommend for the heavy laptop user like myself.</p>
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		<title>Improving Performance of Windows Vista in VMware Fusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Grubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently moved over to a MacBook Pro as my primary laptop and development machine.&#0160; With the recent advances in virtualization on that platform (namely VMware Fusion) it&#39;s become possible to run both Mac OS X and Windows (XP/Vista/Server) in a VM quite happily.&#0160; So when my new laptop arrived the first thing I did [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently moved over to a MacBook Pro as my primary laptop and development machine.&#0160; With the recent advances in virtualization on that platform (namely VMware Fusion) it&#39;s become possible to run both Mac OS X and Windows (XP/Vista/Server) in a VM quite happily.&#0160; So when my new laptop arrived the first thing I did after watching the cool intro video, was install VMware Fusion Beta 2.&#0160; </p>
<p>This newest version adds some exciting features and improved stability so its a good choice if you&#39;re moving to Mac.&#0160; Despite how good Fusion is, there are some things you can do to tweak Windows to play a little nicer in a virtual environment.&#0160; I&#39;m using Windows Vista but these tips will apply to Windows XP as well.</p>
<p><strong>5 Ways to Improve Windows Performance in VMWare Fusion</strong></p>
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<li>Turn off all non-essential services.&#0160; There are a lot of services that Windows enables by default a number of which are totally unnecessary for day-to-day use.&#0160; By going through your running services list (run: services.msc) you can trim quite a bit of memory use.</li>
<li>Ditch the screen saver.&#0160; Because you&#39;re running in a VM in an OS that already has a screen saver, you can turn the Windows one off.&#0160; If it kicks in while your not paying attention it will start to eat up additional resources while you&#39;re trying to do other Mac OS work.</li>
<li>Do you really need 3D acceleration?&#0160; Chances are you&#39;re not going to be playing games in the VM so you can safely turn off the 3D acceleration option in VMware preferences.&#0160; This may not actually eat up resources in the VM but it will add some overhead to the VMware container.</li>
<li>Areo is pretty but slow.&#0160; Just resort to the Windows Classic or Windows Vista Basic theme and just deal with it.&#0160; You should get your &quot;Ooh that&#39;s pretty&quot; vibe from Mac OS X anyway.</li>
<li>Turn off system protection.&#0160; Since you&#39;ll be backing up your Mac OS X machine (and you will be backing up right?) you don&#39;t need the added protection of using system restore on the guest machine and it just eats up virtual hard-disk cycles.</li>
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<p>So there you have it, a few quick ways to speed up the performance of Windows on Mac&#8230;friends at last.</p>
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