Still have the hp pavilion

Still have the hp pavilion 5468. Managed to work through the problems. With a Mac everything just works. With a PC everything has to be forced. Never did get Partition Commander to work. Sent them email. However, they never responded. The only difference between Partition Commander and a bandit is that the bandit doesn’t lie about his intentions. Looks like the $49.00 price for this product was wasted. I also emailed hp about the Linux installation. They never bothered to respond.

Did manage to get Red Hat 9 installed and running. This was accomplished with the aid of VMWare. Downloaded a 30-day trial version from their web site. Having used VirtualPC in a Mac environment for many years, it was an easy solution. Performance is not what it would be with a direct install, but is very usable. Also installed Windows 2000 Enterprise Server. The beauty of this product is that you can install multiple operating systems and test developed product. The only negative is performance. Things work well but just not fast. The other drawback is the price….it’s a cool $299 from VMWare.

Where I work we instituted SCRUM. There is a book titled “Agile Software Development with Scrum”, by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. They do a good job of detailing the process. Interestingly this is the very same process we independently developed three year ago while working for another company. We didn’t name the process. But I like SCRUM. This is a great process and really works because it addresses real life development issues. Would strongly recommend the addition of this book to your library. It’s a good read. Another good read is Alan Coopers’ “The Inmates are Running the Asylum.” I laughed till I cried as I read this book. He totally nailed real world development. Need to read this book again.