I have OpenSUSE 11 installed as a guest OS under Virtual PC, so I no longer 
have to reboot my machine to answer a boss' question about something funky 
some Linux box is doing, or use ssh to tunnel a graphical interface from a 
server, or something like that. Niiice.

Does "quad core" mean four complete ALUs? Or does it mean four register sets 
hyperthreading? What do they call it if it's hyperthreading?

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Darren New wrote:
> I have OpenSUSE 11 installed as a guest OS under Virtual PC, so I no
> longer have to reboot my machine to answer a boss' question about
> something funky some Linux box is doing, or use ssh to tunnel a
> graphical interface from a server, or something like that. Niiice.

Way to go.

> Does "quad core" mean four complete ALUs? Or does it mean four register
> sets hyperthreading? What do they call it if it's hyperthreading?

It means four cores, ie. four units that really calculate things
simultaneously inside one CPU.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_15331_15332%5E15334,00.html

-Aero

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> use ssh to tunnel a graphical interface from a
> server, or something like that. Niiice.

So, you exchanged some weight of running an X app over the network by a lot of
weight for running 2 OSes on a single machine instead of a lightweight plain
text ssh session?  Not niiiice... :P

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nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> use ssh to tunnel a graphical interface from a
>> server, or something like that. Niiice.
> 
> So, you exchanged some weight of running an X app over the network by a lot of
> weight for running 2 OSes on a single machine instead of a lightweight plain
> text ssh session?  Not niiiice... :P

I have a quad-core machine with 6 gig of RAM here. :-) I'd still be running 
an X app over the network - I just wouldn't have to install an X server on 
Windows. I install Linux on Windows, and the X server on Linux. ;-)

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Darren New wrote:
> I have OpenSUSE 11 installed as a guest OS under Virtual PC, so I no 
> longer have to reboot my machine to answer a boss' question about 
> something funky some Linux box is doing, or use ssh to tunnel a 
> graphical interface from a server, or something like that. Niiice.

Uh... why not just use a Windows SSH client?

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> I have OpenSUSE 11 installed as a guest OS under Virtual PC, so I no 
>> longer have to reboot my machine to answer a boss' question about 
>> something funky some Linux box is doing, or use ssh to tunnel a 
>> graphical interface from a server, or something like that. Niiice.
> 
> Uh... why not just use a Windows SSH client?

Because ssh is a transport, and X is a graphics subsystem? Kind of the same 
reason I use pov-ray to draw pictures instead of VI.

Let me rephrase, since I seem to have confused people. Now I can remotely 
log in to a server via SSH and run GUI programs on that server without 
having to stop what I'm doing in Windows.  (Or install an X server on Windows.)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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>> Uh... why not just use a Windows SSH client?
> 
> Because ssh is a transport, and X is a graphics subsystem? Kind of the 
> same reason I use pov-ray to draw pictures instead of VI.
> 
> Let me rephrase, since I seem to have confused people. Now I can 
> remotely log in to a server via SSH and run GUI programs on that server 
> without having to stop what I'm doing in Windows.  (Or install an X 
> server on Windows.)

I use VNC for this very reason... ;-)

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> Let me rephrase, since I seem to have confused people. Now I can
> remotely log in to a server via SSH and run GUI programs on that server
> without having to stop what I'm doing in Windows.  (Or install an X
> server on Windows.)
> 

I'll have to ask, why is X server on Windows a beast?

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Darren New wrote:
> (Or install an X server on Windows.)

As if that was too hard! Search for Xming. Or use Cygwin/X... but I'd use
Xming unless I already have Cygwin stuff installed.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I use VNC for this very reason... ;-)

Yeah. I did too, for a while, until I figured out how to make X run. You 
thought X was slow over a slow network? Try VNC.

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   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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