What I found interesting, however, is a statement that Steve made during his presentation where he claimed that the new VMware View 4.5 Offline mode can take a VM in offline mode and synchronize the changes back to the Master image, including application installs and registry changes.

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We learn how slow his beginnings were: admirers of the present-day master will be touched by the image of the unpublished 23-year-old toiling away on a card table in his in-laws' front room.

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Director Irvin Kershner said Freeborn put his own image into Yoda the Jedi Master, giving the character inquisitive and elfin features with "more than a passing resemblance to Freeborn himself, " Lucasfilm said.

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In a more obscure image by Penn of Tai Chi master Da Liu instructing 80 year old Bertie Donnelly and New York City Ballet dancer Suki Schorer, author Joan Didion recalls coming of age as an assistant editor at Vogue.

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The firm used the image on everything from needle boxes to promotional novelties, and eventually adopted His Master's Voice as the name of its record label.

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Jennifer Edstrom is the daughter of Pam Edstrom, the woman who has honed Bill Gates's image as geek overlord since the company's earliest days and was responsible for master-minding the extraordinary marketing hype surrounding the launch of Windows 95.

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