Saturday, May 17, 2008

Virtualbox update

I have praised virtualbox in earlier posts, it is a good replacement for vmware. But, maybe no more . In general I am a Sun supporter, used the in the 80's when they were truly great. They have now (well as of february '08) taken over virtualbox and released a new version 1.6. Great I thought, until it broke my networking. I was using host networking for running win2k ver ubuntu 7.10, and there seems to be no way to run except as nat. Grrrrr.

Elderly Japanese?

On my recent holiday to Egypt (more on this later) our hotel had one of those strange visits by Japanese tourists. You know, the kind where they are clearly on a whistle stop tours that tick ll the boxes on the been there, seen that, got the t-shirt front, where a group of elderly Jaanese turn up, wander around for a while and then disappear off to the next destination.

Well, anyway it struck me, watching from my poolside vantage point that a lot of old japanese, particularly the men use a kind of low impact way of walking where they seem to have a very precise and measured gait, placing their feet and then moving their weight forward in a slow controlled procession, in exactly the same way as the Sony robot. Which came first I wonder?

Are the aged Japanese tourists really robots? I will ponder this further.

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