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FX’s “The League” TV show is a new ensemble comedy series from producers Jeff Schaffer (”Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Seinfeld“) and his wife Jackie Marcus Schaffer that is set against the backdrop of a fantasy football league.

FX’s “The League” TV show is about male friendship, marriage, parenting, suburbia, and growing up or refusing to grow up through a circle of friends involved in a fantasy football league. I watched the first episode and I fell in love with it.

Well, got my copy of FootBall Manager 2010 not too long ago. However, due to some technical error, I could not get it to work on my Mac. So after I erased my Boot Camp, I reinstalled it with Windows 7. I also have VMware Fusion installed and upgrade to 3.0. It runs both my Mac OS X Server and Boot Camp Windows.

With nothing to lose, I tried to install the FootBall Manager on my Windows 7, and it works! Errrr…

However, I was told that VMware has better support on graphics, compared to VirtualBox or Parallels Desktop. So I tried to run my FootBall Manager 2010 via VMware Fusion.. Guess what? It works!

Hmm. not so bad! I’m quite impressed. So I went further and test the whole engine with FootBall Manager 3D graphic..

Well, not so smooth.. But you get to see everything.. A bit lag, but understandable. If you switch to classic mode (90s FM), it shalt not be too much of a problem.

Way to go, VMware Fusion for Mac!

Trying to settle my own transportation woes recently. The best solution is to get a 2nd hand car. The morning Taxi-waiting list is killing everyone who stays around my area. There are one whole line of people waiting for cabs from 7 am onwards.

After a long search, I kinda set my eyes on Chevrolet Spark or Suzuki Katana/Jimny. Spark is a small city car, it cost abt 8000+ Sing dollars. Cheap (if you compared to what I need to pay in Singapore), but a bit small. And I need to consider the fact that Jakarta’s high frequency for flooding..

Armed with a small budget, I turned my attention to Jeep models. 4X4 wheel drive, old car but steady. After some check and asking, I saw this:

It’s awesome! And the condition of this Suzuki Jimny is excellent! Comes with Good Sound System too.

The interior is clean and polished too!

Will be test driving this car on Thursday. keeping my fingers crossed.

For the poor, it is very challenging for the poor to find a place to stay..

These people connect their water pipe and electricity wires from other building. So they kinda use it “FREE”.

I got a copy of Windows 7 about a week ago. Never really got the chance nor time to play with it until now. So I erased my Windows XP and redo a new Boot Camp Partition for Windows 7. The sole purpose of having Windows is to run some needed applications.

I always enjoyed the idea of having Windows (or even Linux) on my Mac. With VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop, everything runs faster and easier (& to HELL with Virtual PC).

I noticed a few interesting things when I did the installation:

1. Boot Camp will now named the new partition as “BOOT CAMP” instead of “Untitled”.
2. The installation process of Windows 7 is so much user-friendly now.
3. Boot Camp will create the partition in MS-DOS. If you want to proceed with Windows 7, you may encounter a small problem as Windows 7 only install in NTFS volume. Just choose the options and you are able to format the partition.

*Remember, you don’t have to choose the format, it will “auto” format the partition as NTFS.

4. Everything went smoothly. It may restart itself a few times but that is nothing. After everything is setup, just enter your product ID, your Username and Password. Done!

I really like the user-interface. The graphics and motions are smooth. For once, I will say “cool” for Windows. The wallpapers that are included with the disc-installations are funky. Gone are the days where Operating Systems are filled with ugly boxes and dull appearances. GUI has gradually becoming a form of art, and we consumers will benefit from it.

5. Install Boot Camp drivers. I am not sure which version you have from your installer disc. I got a CD that contains drivers from Snow Leopard Installer Disc.

*I believed many people still remember Mac Drive from Mediafour. It allows you to read HFS Plus formatted volume. Now, with Snow Leopard Boot Camp drivers, you can see your Mac OS partition and external volume which formatted in HFS plus.

For some unknown reasons, I could not do a right click via my MBP trackpad (Control-Click), so I used an old program which I had that does Apple Mouse (I always keep this application with me since the very fast day Apple launched Boot Camp). You may download it HERE (applemou.exe). It’s a very handy FREE program.

The customizations are made easier for everyone now. You can even download more FREE themes for your Windows 7.

The last thing you realized is, there are no “Windows Mail”, “Windows Address Book” or “Windows Movie-Maker” etc etc. To be honest, that’s good news for those of us who never used these tools. Microsoft has an page specifically directing you to the replacement applications: Finding your applications in Windows 7 .

If you open a Windows, you can see something similar to Mac Finder:

The downloads, music, movies, photos… etc etc.. Ironically, it make it easier for Mac Users like me to navigate around.

One last thing I noticed about Windows 7 is that the booting time is much faster then Vista. For hardcore Windows Lover, I believe this is something they cheer about.