Comments on: The Virtual Finger

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:15:03 +0000

Hullo all, I’ve crashed into this exact same issue as Mr Cassidy did. I am trying to move from my Windows XP machine to 64 vista business. A major part of that is to port over Vmware server. I found the self same set of problems and while the unsigned drivers set is fine and actually, something I agree with it’s frustrating that VMware haven’t moved to signing their drivers. heck, Workstation and Server 2 have them.

Reading the comments does rather lead me to asking Mr Cassidy to write a column on, err, asking questions. I work in customer support and am, frankly, getting fed up with posts such as “question” and the famous “some questions about”…. I know I am getting old, but if one can’t forumlate a concise, but clear and detailed subject what chance is there you understand or have even thought about the problem?

I’ll stop here before I go off on one.

Please Vmware – sort out driver signing for 1.0.8?

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:58:37 +0000

You seem to be the same person who picked a fight a couple of weeks ago. Once again, it helps if you read what’s been written, in preference to jumping to the first negative thing you can unearth. One: the post is in a search engine. Two: It’s not about Windows 2008 Server, it’s about VMWare. Windows 2008 was running very nicely already, thanks. Three: what is your point? Feel the need to be negative but lack the guts to post under your own name? When it comes to the great reckoning, I’ll take my definition of rudeness over your definition of constructive contribution, any day.

By: c6ten

c6ten — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:39:00 +0000

Sorry I asked. I didn’t realise you would take offence as I was not intending to cause offence. I wasn’t actually asking a question anyway, so I don’t think my (im)politeness was inappropriate. The peculiar conjunction of British English with American computer terminology did jar though. Apparently you have got Windows Server 2008 to work. Well done. However will all the mid-Atlantic jargon be picked up by a search engine?

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:38:52 +0000

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bodge may help if you are not a native English speaker. It refers to an alteration or series of alterations which have an end result in mind but which may, each, be somewhat risky.

You may find you get more detail by learning to ask questions more politely…

By: c6ten

c6ten — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:05:09 +0000

What an odd post. What on earth is a ‘bodge cycle’ for example? This might make sense to somebody, but went completely over my head.