Wow, never knew you could do this--course I'm no computer whiz. Thanks for
the tip, Brian. Cheers, Christine
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From: "Brian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: PS CS4
One way to keep using old software on newer operating systems is to
install a virtual machine onto which you install the older OS and
associated software.
On my Ubuntu Linux installation I've installed Virtual Box in which I
run Windows 2000 and Photoshop 6.
It works well, provided your computer has sufficient memory to run 2 OSs
at the same time (my machine has 1GB) and provided you have the older
operating system available.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:49 -0700, "Joseph McAllister"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with
LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the
corporate need to perpetuate.
That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible
wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers,
causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer
hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases
support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker-
bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self
employed or retired.
Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4,
Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current
equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor
upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'.
The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3
years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken
2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no
upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and
charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my
investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in
the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download
files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all.
So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest
greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.10
on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
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