Archive for August, 2008

Enough with With Emulation

Posted by Ferndave August 27th, 2008

I have tried both of the big Windows emulators for Intel Macs and have to say they both suck. When they work, it’s nice. But when they act-up, which is far too often, only a restart will fix things.
For the most part, Fusion and Parallels are easy to set-up and get going. The applications take [...]

Summer of Dexter

Posted by Ferndave August 11th, 2008

This summer I have watched the first two seasons of the Showtime program Dexter and then read the three books it was based on. Similar, but different, here are what I liked about the respective versions.
 
Books:
Dexter:
The books are written in first person while the show provides a voice-over. The books show a deeper level of [...]