Today is my second day at the new job, and so far, very good. No Maclashes so far :-)
Got the office printer set up under Mac OS X in about 2 minutes, only by using the IP-number and looking at the printer, so that I could choose the correct driver. In Windows I'll probably opt to go for installing with the driver disc, so there I will get all the extras. I found a Macintosh-disc as well, so I might fix it there as well.
Yesterday I sought a little for the best way to do as much of my work from within Mac OS X, and before long found a way that I like a lot.
Ever since my days in university, when we used mostly Sun SparcStations under UNIX, I have been very fond of virtual desktops, to increase desktop space. Since the university days, I have not been able to find a virtual desktop setting that I actually ended up using - until now!
When I found that I could assign VMWare fusion to always run in Window 2 of Mac OS X Leopards virtual desktop implementation "Spaces", I at the same time found a very nice way to run Windows full screen. Now I only hit Ctrl + -> and I'm in Windowsland, and Ctrl + <- and I'm back home. This suits me very well, because it means a minimum of confusion, since I'm used to working in Windows and the layout with Start menu, task bar, etc. Actually I also made the Mighty Mouse show me all four spaces when I squeeze it, thus enabling me to context switch between Mac and Windows without touching the keyboard.
For those of you who have a boss that doesn't want you to do the Mac thing, this "Windows in space 2-setup with mouse squeeze access" might just be the perfect "Ooops, boss is coming"-button setup. ;-)
As far as choosing full screen mode over Unity, I like the Unity mode too, but it feels like it's there more for show-off than for being really, really useful. Maybe with the exception of drag-n-drop of files, that obviously gets very simple in Unity mode. And if you are an all-Mac person that suddenly has had to start running Windows as well, it might be nice to stay in the home environment.
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