Running DSL in a VM...

DSL stands for Damn Small Linux and is a Linux distro with a GUI that fits in roughly 50MB. Thought I might share this screen shot of me running it in vmware server:

RAM from ebay

A few weeks ago we bought 2GB of RAM for my PowerMac G5 (PMG5) from ebay. It was high density RAM, and the PMG5 that I have doesn't support that. We sold it again to some other willing customer on ebay. Now that we have our £400 christmas money (look down a few posts), we finally have enough to get some more, low density, more expensive RAM, and we've ordered it already. So in a few days I should have 2.5GB of RAM in my dual processor 64-bit PowerPC G5 PowerMac! :) It'll be smokin'!!! Once I get the RAM i might do a little benchmark test, kinda like opening four emulated x86 architechture virtual machines, while editing a Final Cut movie, umm... yeah, maybe Google Earth aswell! Or what I could have is a GB each for 2 virtual machines, and 512MB for everything else, that'a be c00l! What'ya do with 2.5G ram eh?

BSoD on a mac (my mac)

This is a video of me making Windows 95 Blue Screen of Death, inside VPC. I did it by making an HTML document that tries to access C:\con\con, which makes it BSoD.

Still image:

UPDATE: Notice that you still see the normal GUI top and bottom? That's because the aspect ratio of the BSoD is different to the normal desktop, and the excess at the top and bottom isn't being redrawn. I.E you still see what was there before where the BSoD doesn't replace. I think that was a glitch of VPC though, as it didn't happen another time (as in the image below the video).

VMware campaign

Who wants to start a little campaign to get the developers of VMware to make a PPC-inside-PPC vmware package?