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OK, so I realise I'm probably about 20 years behind everybody else, but
seriously... this is THE coolest thing I've seen this year! I would
never have believed it was physically possible - and certainly not
without spending hours setting it up. I can't get over how EASY this was!
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"im in ur windoze, runnin ur linux."
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> OK, so I realise I'm probably about 20 years behind everybody else, but
> seriously... this is THE coolest thing I've seen this year! I would
> never have believed it was physically possible - and certainly not
> without spending hours setting it up. I can't get over how EASY this was!
You're not that far behind. I only recently set up VirtualBox on my
Linux so that I could run Windows. Works like a charm - I was really
surprised.
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> OK, so I realise I'm probably about 20 years behind everybody else, but
> seriously... this is THE coolest thing I've seen this year!
Virtual machines are soooo useful. I've been using them for some time to
test out beta software that I don't want breaking my machine, or to try out
things that I know are going to break stuff (hence the name of the VPC in
the picture)
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Gail wrote:
> Virtual machines are soooo useful. I've been using them for some time to
> test out beta software that I don't want breaking my machine, or to try
> out things that I know are going to break stuff (hence the name of the
> VPC in the picture)
My PC at work is barely powerful enough to run *one* OS, let alone two.
It _would_ be quite useful for test purposes though. (Aside from the
small matter that most of the things I want a test machine for relate to
specific hardware issues, which obviously a virtual machine doesn't help
with...)
However, the idea of being able to just plug in a USB stick and click an
icon and instantly have a complete Linux environment set up exactly the
way I want it is... pretty neat, actually. It's like I can just put my
life on a USB stick, keep it in my pocket, and never again find myself
sat at a PC that lacks a development environment. Haskell EVERYWHERE! >:-D
Only trouble is... it would have to be a pretty damned big USB stick.
DSL is nice, but rather minimal. (Shocker.) KNOPPIX is 700 MB
compressed, and decompresses to something like 4 GB...
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:16:57 +0200, "Gail" <gail (at) sql in the wild (dot) co
[dot] za> wrote:
A new email address, Gail!
Have you started your new job yet?
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:16:57 +0200, "Gail" <gail (at) sql in the wild
> (dot) co
> [dot] za> wrote:
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> A new email address, Gail!
> Have you started your new job yet?
That's actually the email address related to my blog
(http://sqlinthewild.co.za) not a work address.
I have started the job. Going slowly at the moment. Should be picking up in
a week or two. Lots of clients are currently 'considering what they want'
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Gail wrote:
> Virtual machines are soooo useful.
Also - virtual machines are SOOOO SLOOOOOW... :-/
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gail wrote:
>
>> Virtual machines are soooo useful. I've been using them for some time to
>> test out beta software that I don't want breaking my machine, or to try
>> out things that I know are going to break stuff (hence the name of the
>> VPC in the picture)
>
> My PC at work is barely powerful enough to run *one* OS, let alone two. It
> _would_ be quite useful for test purposes though.
That's one of the main reasons I went for a quad core with lots of memory
when I upgraded. So that I could have a couple of virtuals running and still
have the base machine usable.
For example, this afternoon, I was doing performance testing on SQL 2008 on
the base machine while I had a virtual running that was doing a 2005-2008
upgrade
> However, the idea of being able to just plug in a USB stick and click an
> icon and instantly have a complete Linux environment set up exactly the
> way I want it is... pretty neat, actually.
You might have problems with IO speed if you do that. USB is a lot slower
than SATA.
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gail wrote:
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>> Virtual machines are soooo useful.
>
> Also - virtual machines are SOOOO SLOOOOOW... :-/
They can be. Depends how much resources you give them though.
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