Just a quick note to wrap up this series of articles. Since writing this article, I’ve switched out my main 
PC running Ubuntu to a Mac – running VMWare’s Fusion. So now I don’t have Quick Silver envy any longer as I’m using Quick Silver on a daily basis.
However, for the Windows side, I’ve decided to use Launchy. It’s very “Quick Silver”-like in operation after some tweaking. I’ve given up looking for a tool on the Linux side as I don’t use the GNOME interface very often any more.
Standardizing on one VM platform has made my life so much easier. I’ve played with a number of them 
and I’ve settled on VMWare. Currently, I have an Ubuntu Server running VMWare in my basement and I have a number of client machines that have VMWare client software running as well. Recently I’ve noticed a deficiency when I move my main computing platform to Mac OSX — there is no VMWare Server Console software.
This software is very valuable if you are running multiple VMs on a VMware server. Instead of configuring a remote control or SSH server on each client VM, you can control the VMs via the VMWare Server Console. When my main computing platform was Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon, this was a no-brainer. The software is bundled with the Linux client package. Running Gusty Gibbon on my primary PC was amazing because I could not only control another VMWare Server, the workstation had multiple client OS’s installed locally so I could have a dozen machines running on two physical pieces of hardware. But then I made the switch….
hint, hint, nudge, nudge – Mother’s day is just around the corner! Today is Apple’s last recommended day for express shipping of an iPhoto book. They even have a promo code to save you 10%. Although I got a notification in email from the Apple store, I’ll send you to Tuaw site for additional info.
I’m getting a little worried about my Macs in my house now. According to MacRumors, even IBM is looking into outfitting some of it’s departments with Macs. Or this story about this article about an upcoming Gartner research report from (tuaw.com.) All of this will increase the number of Macs out there – which isn’t a bad thing in of itself, but it makes the Mac a bigger target for those never-do-wells out there. Let’s not for get this story either: MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes (engadget)
This article by Ars Technical, Keeping your Mac locked down: a Mac OS X security primer is a must read. If anything install the free OS X version of ClamAV and then go purchase and install Little Snitch.
-JT
Okay, a real quick article on the tools I’ve installed on the Hackintosh. All of which work very well.