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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by ReggieB, 2008/04/22.

  1. 2008/04/22
    ReggieB

    ReggieB Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    This is great:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824511

    I read the introduction as it appearred displayed within a Google search and thought "just what I'm looking for! ". So I think you can imagine my disappointment .....
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    And then you got even more excited when you saw it didn't mention VirtPC 2007.....so you thought you still had hope!?!?!?!?
     
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    ReggieB

    ReggieB Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    Installed VirtualBox. That does connect to USB and will give me better support for non-Microsoft operating systems. It took a little fiddling to get it to talk to PDA via ActiveSync, but once I turned off the USB EHCI controller in the Virtual box config, it worked a treat.

    I have hope, just not hope in Virtual PC :D
     
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    Arie

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    Hmm... something else to try out! Thanks for the find! :D
     
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    ReggieB

    ReggieB Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    There's quite a bit of noise about VirtualBox in the Linux press. They've recently been bought by Sun, which explains the extra publicity they are getting at the moment.

    Sun are building a nice portfolio of Open Source projects and free software at the moment:

    OpenOffice: nice simple Office suite that lets you just get on with producing documents.

    MySQL: again, easy to use database system.

    NetBeans: Very nice development environment. The Ruby version is very nice. Now my favourite IDE.

    And now VirtualBox.
     
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