VMware Player will "helpfully" detect the install of WinXP and attempt to provide an unattended install. However, if you are installing from a disk that already includes unattended install information, the information on the disc/iso will be replaced with VMware's.

To avoid this, tell it the os is type "Other". Unfortunately, this seems to somewhat confuse the use of VM Tools, so that resizing the VM window does not automatically resize the screen resolution.

It was later suggested to me to unmount the floppy disk, that this would prevent the issue from occurring.

The Debian Archive server (http://archive.debian.org/) contains packages for discontinued Debian versions. Also, http://autoinstall.plesk.com/ contains Plesk software packages.

Thanks to a post on cogito ergo vagus, I found that Visual Studio 2005 unofficially supports /MP[n] for doing parallel per source file compilation (compared to /M[n] for parallel per project compilation).

I've got a new computer (paid for by Uformia to use for work) and I'm int he process of transitioning from Goliath to Hulk (for lack of a better name).

Experiment with using LastPass to manage my credentials in my web browser.