On Sunday 27 January 2008 08:21:53 am Mike wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:14, Kai Ponte wrote: > > Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business > > laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance. > > Just hate that business thing..
Well, it pays the bills. :P Believe it or not, I was up this morning remoting into my XP machine at work (I have XP and Vista and openSUSE at the office) and working on a Visual Basic 6 application that one of my "programmers" had mucked up. > > > I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to > > use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff > > on. > > That's a lot of work.. ;-) It is all the recent project files, along with various software packages for Wintendo - Visual Studio, Vista, XP, Office 2007, Visio, Rational, Atalasoft, and some other stuff. > > > Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in > > Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still > > calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours. > > And therein lies the problem. You see, you asked Vista a hard question, > and as it couldn't find the right answer, it was trying to make one > up. Even that was hard for Vista to do. LOL! They don't call it "wintendo" for nothing! > > > I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. > > I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started > > copying. > > > > 40 minutes later, the process was complete. > > > > Go openSUSE! > > Too bad you can't just delete the Vista and install openSuSE. Then maybe > run Vista in a VM session.. That's actually my plan. I had to get this laptop certified using an encrypted partition. We are expected to go with PointSec ( http://www.novell.com/partnerguide/product/201358.html ) for our encryption. However, Pointsec doesn't support 10.2 or 10.3 yet so I'm stuck. What I did was purchase a new hard drive (mine is only 90GB, so I purchased a 160GB drive) and will buy out of my pocket a copy of SLES along with Pointsec. SLES will be the primary OS on the laptop with Vista/XP being encapsulated in VM bottles. it is funny, the more I use Vista, the more I realize how Windows isn't ready for prime time yet. :P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
