I kinda like my VMWare Workstation 6.5 (soon to be 7.0). I always have at least 3 VM's running. But I seemed to have some intermittent network problems. I use Bridged networking because that's what I need. Most of my VM's have a static ip so no problems there.

The problem usually happens after I force a close on a VM because sometimes they crash without asking me. And then a weird thing happens. The machine looses its outgoing connection. I can start the machine (albeit a bit slower than usual) and I can ping the machine. I can see the network connection is alive and well and I can p...

Today I wanted to download Adobe Reader 8 so I could install it on our computers. Apparently Adobe doesn’t want you to do this. You have two options, Agree to their distrubition agreement (dutch version, sorry). or download it one by one on each computer which is a waste of bandwidth.

Don’t they want firms to use it anymore? What is behind this decision? I don’t know.

In the end I did the distribution agreement. So they first send you a mail to verify you are human or a smart bot. A...