[LiveBrianD]

OpSec39, on 05 December 2011 - 01:22 AM, said:

Take-note PC World, your customers want Mini-Disk RW and if you stock them, we'll be up your trouser leg like a ferret to buy one!

Uhh, the UK retailer PC World sells stuff, the US magazine PC World (which this forum belongs to) does not.

[JamesEarlCash]

This is my actual desktop image...

[OpSec39]

Here's a little variation, Windows XP inside Virtual Box on Linux!

http://8201.1.img98....i144579_ah7.png

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it...

I discovered much later that the anti-virus is pointless because it's a virtual drive so it scans nothingness!

So it got removed and a load of other app's got added and then I took a snapshot. Time to go find my old CD's of OSX Panther, I feel another virtual instance comming on. This is Cloud computing, everything is virtual, so yea they can hack it and I just delete it and reinstall it~!

I gave it 50Gb of space, then allocated all of 512MB of Ram and it flies like the clappers, Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 made a handy addition as did firefox 8 and the removal of IE and I can revert back to the Linux desktop and check what its doing with the handy Net Activity Viewer.

So no unknown processes seeding on any unknown ports! w00t!

People say they don't like Linux because they cant play there Windows Games.. Bah your living in the past my friends!

This post has been edited by OpSec39: 07 December 2011 - 01:23 AM

[coastie65]

OpSec39, on 07 December 2011 - 12:47 AM, said:

Here's a little variation, Windows XP inside Virtual Box on Linux!

http://8201.1.img98....i144579_ah7.png

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it...

I discovered much later that the anti-virus is pointless because it's a virtual drive so it scans nothingness!

So it got removed and a load of other app's got added and then I took a snapshot. Time to go find my old CD's of OSX Panther, I feel another virtual instance comming on. This is Cloud computing, everything is virtual, so yea they can hack it and I just delete it and reinstall it~!

I gave it 50Gb of space, then allocated all of 512MB of Ram and it flies like the clappers, Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 made a handy addition as did firefox 8 and the removal of IE and I can revert back to the Linux desktop and check what its doing with the handy Net Activity Viewer.

So no unknown processes seeding on any unknown ports! w00t!

People say they don't like Linux because they cant play there Windows Games.. Bah your living in the past my friends!

Well, lokks like you proved your point. Man, I like that wall paper.

[OpSec39]

coastie65, on 07 December 2011 - 06:18 AM, said:

OpSec39, on 07 December 2011 - 12:47 AM, said:

Here's a little variation, Windows XP inside Virtual Box on Linux!

http://8201.1.img98....i144579_ah7.png

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it...

I discovered much later that the anti-virus is pointless because it's a virtual drive so it scans nothingness!

So it got removed and a load of other app's got added and then I took a snapshot. Time to go find my old CD's of OSX Panther, I feel another virtual instance comming on. This is Cloud computing, everything is virtual, so yea they can hack it and I just delete it and reinstall it~!

I gave it 50Gb of space, then allocated all of 512MB of Ram and it flies like the clappers, Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 made a handy addition as did firefox 8 and the removal of IE and I can revert back to the Linux desktop and check what its doing with the handy Net Activity Viewer.

So no unknown processes seeding on any unknown ports! w00t!

People say they don't like Linux because they cant play there Windows Games.. Bah your living in the past my friends!

Well, lokks like you proved your point. Man, I like that wall paper.

Got it off google images just look for Windows 7 (they got some nice ones), busy installing OSX to run alongside it now, spoilt for choice, do I surf with Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox.. Wondering how it will handle Games like Half-Life which I have on the shelf and must confess I have not played in ages, probably a bit sucky as I wasn't very liberal with the Ram.

But nice to have all three of my favorite OS's all in one place, contrary to popular belief you can run OSX with a bare minimum of 512MB of Ram but I feel a little more generous and think I'll give it 836MB and another 50GB self expanding disk drive.

That should leave 125GB for Linux which I know I will probably fill quick but thank god for the spare HDD's I can shuffle rubbish like Music and Downloads onto those to clear up some of the clutter. Although to be fair so far I've only used approx 30Gb of space and thats with all those die hard rock and elvis tracks "California on my mind.."

But then again I am sure you dont mean my wallpaper, yes it does have a rather nice appeal, shame I cant put my finger on it!

This post has been edited by OpSec39: 07 December 2011 - 08:06 AM

[LiveBrianD]

Unfortunately, you can't run OS X virtually, and I think older versions like Panther need a PowerPC Mac. What theme is that?

Coastie, voila, I found that wallpaper: http://www.google.co...t:429,r:3,s:113
Personally I use tools to download images en masse to get a bunch from a google search for nature wallpaper stuff. I've got 749pics there, 465MB worth.

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 07 December 2011 - 04:01 PM

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 07 December 2011 - 03:59 PM, said:

Unfortunately, you can't run OS X virtually, and I think older versions like Panther need a PowerPC Mac. What theme is that?

Coastie, voila, I found that wallpaper: http://www.google.co...t:429,r:3,s:113
Personally I use tools to download images en masse to get a bunch from a google search for nature wallpaper stuff. I've got 749pics there, 465MB worth.

I was over there this morning and picked up a bunch of Wallpapers, but never saw that one. Got a lot of Beach scenes.

[Fatbot]

Gotta make a folder for all those shortcuts, but I just got my machine the other day, so it's been downloading constantly.

[LiveBrianD]

Don't you hate it when programs create a shortcut to themselves on the desktop that you'll never use, only to have you delete it instantly? Even worse, when it's just an automatic update? For instance, nitro PDF reader does that without asking you, though I've NEVER launched the program by itself, just clicked on a pdf file, and so of course when it puts a shortcut there I delete it immediately.

[OpSec39]

LiveBrianD, on 07 December 2011 - 03:59 PM, said:

Unfortunately, you can't run OS X virtually, and I think older versions like Panther need a PowerPC Mac. What theme is that?

Its one of the Clear Light theme brikopacks I think it's called Windows Vista but not sure as I installed a few and have since forgot where I found em.

You where right about the PowerPC issue, I discovered that myself after hours of trying to boot and setting no EFI in the system options and reading various hack-a-day articles on how to get it going all to no avail, it just will not get past the BSD disk loader which seems convinced I have a BSD slice and not a linux partition.

Quick tip, if you download the Windows XP Antispy pack you can hide those annoying shortcut mini-arrows. Also big fan of Console for Windows by Daniel Freefoote, why click icons at all when you can simply press a quick keyboard combination and have a roll down terminal screen similar to linux and just type Overlord or halflife to play the game instead of having to click. Saves on desktop space no end.

This post has been edited by OpSec39: 08 December 2011 - 12:52 AM

[waldojim]

OS-X can be run virtually, it is very tricky to do though. If you google around there are guides on how to do it.

Though I don't see much of a point. The guest would be more stable than most peoples host.

[OpSec39]

waldojim, on 08 December 2011 - 01:00 AM, said:

OS-X can be run virtually, it is very tricky to do though. If you google around there are guides on how to do it.

Though I don't see much of a point. The guest would be more stable than most peoples host.

Yeah I saw stuff related to that, but to be honest happy enough with Windows XP and SELinux, I don't see the point either, its like I am only going to use one virtual desktop at any one time, so seems a bit crazy to be wanting to use all three, not to mention you'd have to install all your firefox addons in both the virtual desktop and the normal one along with any other application you just cant go without, after careful consideration I decided I can go without.. lol

Microsoft & Apple teach you bad habits, point and click, search through multiple files and folders, just to get to the application you want. Linux two key presses and that's it, no searching involved. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!

Although to be fair they've got some desktops that are just as bad, KDE as an example. Spinning desktop cubes, just eye-candy that serves no purpose except to wow people with the glamorous effects whilst it chews up your resources doing it.

So long as the rest of the world has OSX and Vista interfaces, they'll always have an aftertaste of Linux!

This post has been edited by OpSec39: 08 December 2011 - 01:26 AM

[waldojim]

OpSec39, on 08 December 2011 - 01:14 AM, said:

Yeah I saw stuff related to that, but to be honest happy enough with Windows XP and SELinux, I don't see the point either, its like I am only going to use one virtual desktop at any one time, so seems a bit crazy to be wanting to use all three, not to mention you'd have to install all your firefox addons in both the virtual desktop and the normal one along with any other application you just cant go without, after careful consideration I decided I can go without.. lol

Microsoft & Apple teach you bad habits, point and click, search through multiple files and folders, just to get to the application you want. Linux two key presses and that's it, no searching involved. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!

Although to be fair they've got some desktops that are just as bad, KDE as an example. Spinning desktop cubes, just eye-candy that serves no purpose except to wow people with the glamorous effects whilst it chews up your resources doing it.

So long as the rest of the world has OSX and Vista interfaces, they'll always have an aftertaste of Linux!

I have to admit, for a while it was cool to have it 'snowing' on my desktop aquarium, while I spun it around with videos and 3d gears running, showing off how powerful Compiz was to my friends... Then my battery died!

In reality, I tend to stick with Gnome when I can, and turn off all the effects. If I could go back to those days, I would just use Elightenment from the Mandrake 7 days... such an elegant interface.

This post has been edited by waldojim: 08 December 2011 - 01:49 AM

[coastie65]

Fatbot, on 07 December 2011 - 08:38 PM, said:

Gotta make a folder for all those shortcuts, but I just got my machine the other day, so it's been downloading constantly.

I'm glad you posted that. Now maybe they'll leave me alone about all the shortcuts on my desktop.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 08 December 2011 - 06:55 AM

[Fatbot]

coastie65, on 08 December 2011 - 06:45 AM, said:

Fatbot, on 07 December 2011 - 08:38 PM, said:

Gotta make a folder for all those shortcuts, but I just got my machine the other day, so it's been downloading constantly.

I'm glad you posted that. Now maybe they'll leave me alone about all the shortcuts on my desktop.

Good choice in games; I'm adding my old stuff to my new gaming rig (GetsugaSSJ built it for me) and I'll be putting Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn on it in just a little while. Like I said though, I'm probably going to be consolidating most of them into a "Games" folder... it's just fun to see it all there at once.

[coastie65]

A lot of that stuff was on there when the Hdd was installed in the Gateway. I had gotten the Hdd and installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit ( it is running Vista Home Premium on the Hdd that came with it and is still there ). Win 7 was a Retail Copy so there was no problem in moving it from one machine to the other. There is a bunch of stuff on there from when I was trying to unlock the BiOS in that thing. I have the Boxed set of Baldur's Gate stuff. They did a pretty decent job with Deus Ex: Human Revolution, although I am having a bit of a problem with a Boss in that thing. The Wallpaper I have up now is a sceen shot from Fallout 3.

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 08 December 2011 - 06:45 AM, said:

I'm glad you posted that. Now maybe they'll leave me alone about all the shortcuts on my desktop.

Hmm... well, we can still bug you about your PSU overkill!

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 08 December 2011 - 03:47 PM, said:

coastie65, on 08 December 2011 - 06:45 AM, said:

I'm glad you posted that. Now maybe they'll leave me alone about all the shortcuts on my desktop.

Hmm... well, we can still bug you about your PSU overkill!

Yeah, as well as the lappy I just ordered.

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 08 December 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

Yeah, as well as the lappy I just ordered.

What do you need a third computer for? And I thought that 2 were enough...

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 08 December 2011 - 05:52 PM, said:

coastie65, on 08 December 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

Yeah, as well as the lappy I just ordered.

What do you need a third computer for? And I thought that 2 were enough...

4th. I already have two Desktops and a lappy although my Mom uses the lappy in the den where she is at most of the time ( wireless connection ).

This post has been edited by coastie65: 08 December 2011 - 06:24 PM