The week before last I was finally able to purchase all the required parts needed to complete my dissertation. The VMware stuff arrived a few hours after ordering, the Redhat licenses the instant they had been purchased, and the RAM after the weekend. But surpirse surprise I am still waiting on MS to get off their butts and get the MSDN stuff sorted.

I’m still progressing, it just means that some testing environments can only last for 59 days. Oh and 2GB of RAM in my laptop is very nice, all be it temporary.