MS Virtual PC 2007

I spent most of today watching a Bob Dylan documentary and a pink panther film. The Dylan documentary was quite good, although it only covered a few years of his life, something like 1960-1966. Would have been more interesting if it had covered all his life up to now. It had some clips of performances by other good artists that me and yumpt had nae heard of, so we wrote them down as we watched the film:

• Gene Vincent and the blue caps
• Muddy Waters
• Woody Guthrie
• The new lost City Ramblers
• Howlin' Wolf

I also downloaded Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 as using VMWare I have been unable to connect to my PC's localhost. After downloading it I found I already had it installed, so I installed win XP on it, and then found that MS actually provide virtual hard disk images pre-loaded with Win XP SP2 and IE6/7/8 that you can download for free from their website.

So I downloaded Windows XP SP2 with IE6 and Windows XP SP2 with IE8 images. Then I loaded them up, loads quicker than installing Win XP myself took. Also now means that I don't have to use the illegal version of Win XP I was using previously to test stuff on IE6.

To get internet and be able to connect to my localhost in the virtual PC I had to go on the settings for the virtual machine and change the networking adapter to 'Shared networking (NAT)'. Then to access localhost from the virtual machine I just had to type in the i.p. address of my actual PC.

After getting this working I deleted the old win XP virtual machine I had made, VMWare and a few other old programs I found in the add/remove programs section of control panel.

Food
Breakfast: Frosties; cup o' tea.
Morning snack: Crinkle crunch cream; milk chocolate digestive; cup o' tea.
Lunch: ½ Peppered ham sandwich; cheese on toast; satsuma; kitkat; cup o' tea.
Dinner: Chicken; parsnips; broccoli; potatoes; gravy. Pudding was apple pies with cream. Coffee. Chocolate truffle mix; easter egg.