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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
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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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...?
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The three of us are out of town from Monday to basically Monday the first week of Spring Break. We'll be back the 2nd week.
Sunday nights are family dinner nights so that's a no go.
So it looks like I'll be loading up my iPod Nano with kids TV shows for Mackenzie. I've already grapped Go Diego Go and Dora the Explorer - just need to re-compress/convert them for the iPod. Gotta convert over some of our Baby Einstein shows and Hi-5 as well.
That was my asking price. I guess I didn't start high enough?
Oh well, I'm happy. That $250 combined with $25 I got for PII IBM laptop should be enough to buy an AMD X2 4200+ CPU, 2GB PC2 6400 RAM, plus the Gigabyte MB and InWin case I've been drooling over. I'll probably add a new TV Tuner pretty soon as well, and possibly a 750Gb hard drive. For now I'll use a 250GB PATA drive and my 500Gb external drive but the new Samsung drives seem to run cool and quiet.
Speaking of which, I'm tempted to wait for AMD's price drop on their energy efficient CPUs. Rumour is that now that they've launched the "4850e" (which is essentially a 45W 4800+) all the 45W CPUs will drop to be equal in price to their 65W equivalents. The new naming is so much easier to understand than the current low power versions which are BE-2300, BE-2350, and BE-2400 which even I can't quite remember what their 4xxx+ equivalients are. (3800+, 4000+ and 4400+ maybe?) To bad they aren't renaming the existing ones.
Anytime this spring. The winter tires are going to come off next week, and the RE-070's will last for the short term.
What made you go for the RE-050's? Isn't the treadwear worse than 070's?
RE050A PP is what they say, but Evo magazine likes the Goodyear F1 Asymmetric better. Supposingly the wear on the 050A PP is better than the F1 GS-D3 but I don't know about the F1 Asymmetric. Neither have 215/45R17s though so it might be roller my fender vs going back to the GS-D3. I like to try the F1 Asymmetric though
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