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Mini vMac

Wishes Granted



This page lists former items of the Mini vMac Wish List that have been obtained, thanks to donations from sponsors.

Apple Keyboard

sponsors: Zebadiah Kimmel, Iván dominguez martin
ordered: April 6, 2010; received: April 13, 2009

I strongly prefer keyboards without a numeric keypad, so that there is less distance to the mouse. Unfortunately they are rare, and I want to encourage Apple for making one. The Apple keyboard is quieter and requires less force than my current Happy Hacker Lite. Having two keyboards would mean less stuff to cart around between the two locations where I do most work on Mini vMac. And a quieter keyboard would be better for late night work at one of the locations.

Food

sponsors: ClockWise, Greg Lee, Timothy Scoles, Claude Armstrong
received: March 3, 2010
used for: May 21-28, 2010

I have arranged a place that I can go occasionally to work on Mini vMac without distraction for 5 to 7 days (and also cat sit). But food still needs to be paid for.

Gas

sponsors: Anonymous
received: February 24, 2010
used for: June 23-30, 2010

I have arranged a place that I can go occasionally to work on Mini vMac without distraction for 5 to 7 days (and also cat sit). I can borrow a car to get there. But gas still needs to be paid for.

Gas

sponsors: Timothy Scoles
received: January 30, 2010
used for: May 21-28, 2010

I have arranged a place that I can go occasionally to work on Mini vMac without distraction for 5 to 7 days (and also cat sit). I can borrow a car to get there. But gas still needs to be paid for.

Gas

sponsors: Manuel Alfayate
received: January 28, 2010
used for: January 20-26, 2010

I have arranged a place that I can go occasionally to work on Mini vMac without distraction for 5 to 7 days (and also cat sit). I can borrow a car to get there. But gas still needs to be paid for.

Food

sponsors: John Knoll
received: January 18, 2010
used for: January 20-26, 2010

I have arranged a place that I can go occasionally to work on Mini vMac without distraction for 5 to 7 days (and also cat sit). But food still needs to be paid for.

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade


sponsors: Mini vMac Variations activations, Andrew Johnstone
received: December 22, 2009

Would allow better support of this OS version. I think it should also allow supporting a 64 bit Windows version of Mini vMac.

Living expenses for one day's programming

sponsors: Leon Buijs
funded: December 12, 2009; used: March 24, 2010

So that I can spend one day developing Mini vMac. To be used for food, rent, insurance, and utilities. (For a day on which I have at least 8 hours available for work.)

1 TB USB Hard Drive

sponsors: Andrew Johnstone, Steve Waddell, Evan Appelman, Stephen Kluskens, Jonathan Ploudre, Zheng Yang
ordered: December 10, 2009; received: December 14, 2009

For holding dozens of VMware virtual machines, for testing Mini vMac with different operating systems and development environments.

Headphones

sponsors: Jonathan Ploudre
funded: November 8, 2009; ordered: November 10; received: November 16

For checking emulation of sound. My current headphones are failing.

VMware Fusion 3 Upgrade

sponsors: Pedro Maciel, Greg Lee, ClockWise of E-Maculation
obtained: November 4, 2009

Is supposed to better support Snow Leopard and Windows 7. I use VMware Fusion for all Windows and Linux development.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

sponsors: ClockWise of E-Maculation
obtained: October 24, 2009

Allows better support of this OS version, which will make me more comfortable about officially releasing Mini vMac 3.1.3 as the stable version. Also allows better support for Xcode 3.2, which requires Snow Leopard.


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