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Great article here on how to go about shrinking your virtual disk size for Windows images running under VMware Fusion on a Mac.

Being a UNIX/Linux user for years, one of the first things I usually need when administering a system is root access, or at least su to root to run certain commands, like update software, reconfiguration of network adapters, and so on.

By default, Mac OS X ships with the root user account disabled. You will need to follow a very specific set of steps (outlined here) in order to enable root access.

Since making “the switch” from Windows to Mac as my primary OS of choice, I have become a big fan of Cyberduck. I needed a fast and simple GUI method to edit and move files from Mac to my other UNIX systems. I have used WinSCP and PuTTY for years on Windows, so I really liked the idea of a GUI based SFTP tool. Cyberduck fits the bill (pun intended).

Here are some screenshots of Cyberduck:

I recently had a need to migrate all of my Outlook Contacts over to Apple Mail/Address Book and Microsoft Entourage for Mac. Since the Outlook PST format is proprietary (direct export/import from Outlook to Entourage is not supported), I needed to find a way to do this. I decided I had 3 options:

1.) I could spend $10 and buy Outlook2Mac.

2.) I could setup an IMAP server on a Linux box and copy all of my contacts to the IMAP server and import from there to Mac email programs, which would populate the Apple Address Book.

3.) I could export my contacts into vCard format (*.vcf) and import into Mac.

Since I was planning to later convert the physical machine to VMware, I chose option 3.

To do this, I found a great VBscript online here (thanks to Dave Moats). I created a new folder on my WIndows XP PC at c:\vcards and ran the script as follows:

cscript exportContacts.vbs c:\vcards

Hope you find this link and script helpful, I sure did, and have added it to my arsenal for