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Oh, my Lord. You gave me Macbook Air one night and now why are you taking it away from me?

Macbook Air brought me not only joy but also disatrous nights. How come?

Well, it’s not Apple’s fault. It’s VMware’s!!

I installed Windows XP using boot camp and tried to use it with Vmware Fusion. Just natural desire and a must for everyone!! But it didn’t happen as I expected. VMware had kept crashing and I did everything I could imagin, but without success. Why not?

The answer is, Macbook Air doesn’t have a Super drive and VMware just crashes when it starts to run boot camp partition and can’t find a CD/DVD drive. Duh? But you can easily fix it by going to VM settings and disconnecting the CD/DVD drive. It works like a charm. If you want to know more about it, please refer to this thread. FYI, Parallel works just fine.

Recently, VMware Fusion team opened their team blog but I couldn’t find any information regarding this issue there. But I could find their marketing posts ( 1, 2 ) regarding Macbook Air and Fusion. I think that information like this remedy, not marketing materials, should be published in the blog until the official fix comes out. I spent several hours in googling to find out the solution to this issue and it was not pleasant or efficient.

Hey, Team Fusion guys, please post more valuable information for your precious users. I paid for your service and I don’t want to debug your product and googling for the fix. Please do it for me, it’s your job!! Thanks in advance.

I’d like to share good tips for Wordpress, which I think it’s worth sharing.

1. How to rollback theme when you get a critical error
I kinda get boring with my current wordpress theme, which is a default theme for wordpress 2.x. So I tried K2 RC3 theme but as soon as I activated it I bumped into a terrible error and my blog stopped working. :-{

I went crazy but I couldn’t find a solution of rollback on the web. I didn’t want to spend more time to fix K2 and customize it for my blog. So I just wanted to get rid of it. It took a while for me but the solution was very easy. Just delete the theme-specific directory (this case, ‘k2′) under ‘wp-theme’ directory. Wordpress will soon turn into the default theme automatically. I will stick with the default theme for more.

Update: K2 RC3 works just fine. I found it out when I re-do the everything I did, in order to take a screenshot of error message for this blog but I couldn’t repeat the error. So don’t be afraid to try it. (I still prefer default.)

2. WordPress OpenID support
Here’s a great post which covers everything about OpenID support in WordPress. I’ve tried this plugin quite a while but it gave me nothing but a headache. The post relieved me and I am sure that it will give you a nirvana. Thanks, Rotacoo.

ecto: I just purchased ecto, one of the best blogging tools, especially for the mac platform. (There is a windows version, too.) It seems that there are some bugs with WordPress 2.2.2 but I am not sure that they are solely due to ecto or WordPress, maybe both. But the more I get used to ecto, the more I like it. It’s very easy and intuitive. It remembers your previous settings for virtually everything and there are also ‘Primary’ and ‘Make default’ for your convenience so that you can save a lot of clicks that you used to do with your browser. It’s US$17.95 and I think it’s a bargain. Since they offer 21-day trial version, you should check it out!

TextPad: I love this one. Kind of, de-facto standard editor for Ruby on Rails. It provides bundles for virtually every languages and scripts on the earth so that you will find comfort writing codes using it. But be aware that it lacks CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) support. The developer said version 2.0 will do, but not until the release of Leopard. Except that one, it’s just great. Oh, right! I missed one very important thing. It’s quite over-priced, €39. But once you get used to it, you can’t live a day without it. They also offer 30-day trial version. Check it out. But I warned you already, you will be its slave. Also check out my favorite skin: Vibrant Ink.