While I’ve been using apple computers for years now, I’m new to virtualization.
Because we develop web applications using Ruby on Rails, we decided to work with apple MacBooks. This is really nice because we then look cool while writing cool code, but a challenge when we do consultancy work on other platforms. Currently I’m doing Sharepoint (MOSS 2007) development for a customer and for this MacOS just won’t cut it. For this we’ve bought VMware Fusion. I cannot praise this magnificent piece of software enough. It just works (and I’m still running with the beta version).
So a couple of days ago I had to connect via remote desktop to my MOSS development environment and change my default password. To change my password on the Windows 2003 server I had to do a “ctrl-alt-delete“, and then it hit me… How the heck do I do this with my MacBook keyboard?! I’ve started a Windows XP in VMware Fusion and connected to a (virtual) Windows 2003 Server through Remote Desktop (talk about virtualization Image may be NSFW.
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). I search the net but could not really find anything about this cocktail, so I wanted to share my findings on this tricky key combination (or at least store it somewhere for when I need it again in six months):
fn-M + numeric enter (the funny up arrow next to the right apple key) + <– (the top right delete key)
I used like an hour to figure this one out Image may be NSFW.
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