turbotax protip for virtualization weirdos

Howdy,

So I’ve been trying to do my taxes with turbotax; I’m on a Mac so I run Virtualbox to run a windows VM for turbotax. I stupidly enabled 3D acceleration on my VM, so TurboTax actually throws an exception trying to render an image; the hint was the stack trace referencing all sorts of accelerated video rendering shared libraries…

Disable 3D rendering and you’ll be back to doing your taxes.

Whee!

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vim boot camp / hell week

taking out a whole week to learn an editor (beyond just vim-tutor) might sound like overkill (it might very well be), but if any vim gurus out there are offering some sort of super advanced in-depth class on vim, I’d totally sign up.

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Marvell AppleYukon MacOS X

Howdy.

The Sonnet Presto Gigabit Pro PCIe [GE1000LA-E] card: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/prestogigpciepro.html

is in actuality this:

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Vendor ID: 11ab
Device ID: 4362

On MacOS X (Snow Leopard), it works out of the box, and uses the (com.apple.iokit) AppleYukon2.kext (version (3.2.1b1) at the time of this writing).

I could not find this chipset information anywhere else on the intertubes, even on the various OSX86 and hackintosh forums (most folks seem to just opt for those crummy realtek cards); I hope it helps you make a better informed buying decision. :)

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