So a funny thing happened on my way to Hi-HO....

11 March 2008, 01:30

you're actually including the OS?

11 March 2008, 03:45

P4, sounds like a white box, so it can be made "Internet-ready" by installing Ubuntu

11 March 2008, 05:11

Thug - I say do a low-level format and put good 'ol DOS on there. Tell them it can be "Internet Ready" for special price.

KGB - how you liking Gutsy? You running gnome or KDE?

Tactrix cable has been ordered! I'll grap it when I get to Seattle late next week.

LaterZ!
Darren!!

11 March 2008, 05:54

I run Gnome and I really wanted to turf this broadcom piece of junk wireless card out - the proprietary driver tends to wreck havoc at times. Otherwise, I'm almost there running my native XP inside Gutsy with VMPlayer, using a VMX generated from EasyVMX.com and edited the disk section to directly access the partition

11 March 2008, 07:19

You could always run VMServer on your Linux box. VMWare is letting people use that for free/non commercial usage. But VMPlayer works just as well - just don't have the "ease of modifying" the VM, not that opening up a text editor is hard to do.

LaterZ!
Darren!!

11 March 2008, 14:24

I'm including a copy of Windows XP pro. It still has a giant "Microsoft Company Store, Not for Resale" sticker on it, but I peeled off the small $30 price tag. Ah, the perks of being sent to Microsoft for training... I think they were pretty much sold out of Xbox games last time I was there, plus they only allow us to spend $100 max. I couldn't resist Streets & Trips with GPS for $60 and I brought home another copy of XP Pro for a coworker. But it's been a few years now and I'm not sure how soon I'll end up back down there.

11 March 2008, 17:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penphoe

You could always run VMServer on your Linux box. VMWare is letting people use that for free/non commercial usage. But VMPlayer works just as well - just don't have the "ease of modifying" the VM, not that opening up a text editor is hard to do.

Actually, I don't think the license for VMWare Server says anything about non comercial usage, it's flat out free. I have VMWare Workstation on my desktop at work, but I use VMWare server on various severs to host build machines and test machines. Too bad VMWare server only allows one snapshot. Also, I don't know about the Linux platform, but on Windoze, I think VMWare server is VNC based for client access, which is much laggier than the client rendering of VMWare Player/VMWare Workstation. The way around that, for Windoze at least, is not to use the VMWare Sever client to connect, but remote into the guest using remote desktop which is nice and responsive.

11 March 2008, 21:25

Nah, I think I will stick to VMPlayer just because it came pre-packaged. Don't know what the limitations are for VMPlayer vs VMServer. Windows worked both natively and virtually, and now I just need to troubleshoot the dhcp daemon for the NAT interface as I'm rarely wired at home and we all know that unpatched VMPlayer doesn't bridge wireless network. Hard-coding an IP will work for now on the NAT interface

11 March 2008, 23:08

Main advantage of VMWare Server for me is it runs as a service, and I can have it start my VMs when the server is booted and shutdown them down cleanly when the server is shutdown/rebooted. I could probably do the same with VMWare Player if I wrote some scripts. Of course, it also lets you create new VMs, but that's not a big deal. I find a single snapshot isn't that useful either.

12 March 2008, 00:23

I guess with Linux as a host, there is no significant difference. Just found out that I can have wireless bridging but I would need to compile my own VMware kernel modules - guess I will skip, let some one else do the deeds, and rip the benefits later as I'm trying stay strictly on packaged apps (plus I got NAT mode working - it's not the networking per-se but rather the lack of VLSM support in the bundled dhcp daemon which was based on ISC dhcpd 2.0). Suspending the Windows VM sucks arse though - VMplayer need to stream the 1.5GB RAM onto disk and it's slow. Maybe Windows' own hibernation is better for this than suspend when running under VMplayer - I have found that on my corp laptop hibernation is faster than shutdown/poweron with all the pagefile clearing crap

12 March 2008, 02:51

Well, looks like I'm going to be able to sell Stef's old P4 system for $250, and that's without a monitor.

12 March 2008, 03:03

Is it Intarneet Reedy?

@ Mirage - d'oh! Should have clued in on the old-school LGT with gold RS wheels.

I couldn't tell who was driving because the light just turned green. That, I didn't hear your uber-loud exhaust because you were @ the light.

What were you doing down there? Working on some IBM POS terminals?

LaterZ!
Darren!!

12 March 2008, 12:40

Is that your bottom price?

12 March 2008, 12:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by youthanasia

Hey guys! Teh kitteh is bowling for big brothers! If you can donate and pledge for me please do so! All donations are tax deductable, you can pledge for me at this site:

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=1700072

Thanks!

Cheers;
Peter

Done, sorry it took so long and the amount is small, but I make less than half of you guys, and it was just enough to push you up to your goal.

Good luck Petter! I want to see a pic of you in a bowling shirt with a "sponsored by aloe" patch!

12 March 2008, 16:14

yey! met my goal! Thanks everyone!

12 March 2008, 19:03

Petter: donated to kitties!

KFC: Thanks for the steam cleaner, I'll let you know how it turns out and hopefully can get the blood stain out

Nice seeing you btw and the apartment looks nice! We should all go for dinner again ~

Anyone else free for dinner? Did I hear spring break...?

12 March 2008, 20:36

Thanks for dinner.

12 March 2008, 20:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by mynxi

hopefully can get the blood stain out

I find the OxyClean spray works pretty well on carpet and laundry stains. I've had mixed results with blood stains but it might be worth a try.