Vista
Since I'm a .NET dude, you might find this post a wee bit odd, because, I should worship MS, right?... well I don't :), so in any case...
Hokay. So...
I recently made the jump to be *that* much closer to an all-unix setup [at home]. I've had my macbook now for about a year, and it's totally dope, I love it. In fact, I just got 4 gigs of ram for $35 beans from newegg.com.
The reason why I got that hot upgrade was because of the VMWare Fusion trial I had just decided to checkout.
Now, I'm very familiar with VMWare and its hotness. I used VMWare server on Ubuntu for some years as a way to tinker with a bunch of Unix and Linux OSes.
After DLing and messing around with it out for some time, (I used it at DevConnections Vegas 08) I knew that hog had to be mine! After turning my boot camped-Vista-partition into a virtual machine I soon realized that it was worth every penny. Twas always such a pain to have to reboot just to tinker with some idea in Visual Studio for five minutes. Just need to find a replacement for Texter (Spotlight is a great replacement for Launchy).
On that note.... a couple weeks ago I setup my older ASUS Pundit-R barebones machine to run the latest version of Ubuntu (8.10 as of today)... and it flies. With a P4 chip, 1 gig of ram, and some low-end NVidia card, it's totally acceptable for doing most webby stuff. I haven't rally monkeyed with Ubuntu since Dapper/Edgy, but I can say it has come a long way since I started w/Hoary.
So, you've got a remote desktop connection that has gone haywire. Looks like explorer has hung up, and crashed.
For some reason you're on your Vista boot camped-MacBook so the Control+Alt+End key combination is nonexistent. You were smart enough to install Launchy 'cuz it rokks and 'cuz Mike Duncan said so. What do you do?! Never fear... Launchy to the rescue!
(Sexy new Launchy 2.0 interface.)
There are all sorts of hot features with Launchy besides opening applications. Searching google, calculations, weather, indexing... If you're like me, then you like to use your keyboard more than your rat mouse. (I wish I could get a MacBook type trackpad built into my MS ergonomic keyboard). Then I'd give that rodent to the ratatatCATs.
Now at version 2.0 all you need to do is a little Alt+Space action to bring up that beast. Type "explorer" to bring your desktop back from the dead and you're back in business. Baby.
