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Archive for May, 2009
OMG! This is soooooo cool!
May 11th
VW have a flash game to promo their new Golf GTI. They’ve put a camera into a mini Scalextrix version of the car and you get to race it. Not really, but it’s fun anyway. The fastest on the leaderboard gets a loan of the real thing for 3 months (if you’re from the UK).
Gripe of the day
May 7th
Aaaagggghhh
Why is it that VMware hide their VMware server downloads behind a password?
Like many I run headless Linux servers without a GUI installed. I’d like to be able to download VMware Server (700MB+) using wget via an SSH session, but I can’t because you need to log in first, and it’s not a vanilla HTTP login that I can work through wget either! I’m expected to log into the site on my desktop, download the installer and then SFTP it up to the Linux box. That would be OK if the server was on the same LAN, but it’s in a More >
