Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio into the manly OS

2008-12-18 Thread Hendrik & Fay
XP is not really unstable unless there are conflicting programs/processes. I should think once virtualbox is running on top of XP it will be fine. However if you have a few programs running in XP and then run VB as well you may experience problems. XP is like a man, it can do one thing at a time

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio into a virtualbox

2008-12-18 Thread Hendrik & Fay
But do you still need a copy of XP to make this work? I don't have a copy of XP cause my el cheapo computer came with it pre-installed and in one of my fiddle sessions it was lost into cyber space. Looking at ebay they still want over a 100 bucks for XP SP2. Hendrik Trampas Stern wrote: I fin

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-18 Thread Rich Thomas
Yep yer right on there, but it would be kinda fun for fooling around purposes. I guess you can do it the other way too, will try both. --R Craig McCluskey wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:42:01 -0500 Rich Thomas wrote: Your message intrigued me, I found this for winders users. I gotta try

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-18 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:42:01 -0500 Rich Thomas wrote: > Your message intrigued me, I found this for winders users. I gotta try > this > > > *Open Steps - Installing Ubuntu Linux on Windows using VirtualBox > 2.0http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Open-Steps-Installing-Linux-on- > Windows-

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-18 Thread Rich Thomas
Your message intrigued me, I found this for winders users. I gotta try this *Open Steps - Installing Ubuntu Linux on Windows using VirtualBox 2.0http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Open-Steps-Installing-Linux-on-Windows-using-VirtualBox-2-0--/features/111582* --R Trampas Stern wrote: I fi

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-18 Thread Trampas Stern
I finally did something really smart. I switched to ubuntu! I now run windows in a VirtualBox image. I find that some programs, like electronics CAD program for work only runs on XP, but it works great in virtual box. I actually can run the virtual image and watch DVDs, movies online, etc. I also

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-17 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
No, Im running XP now on this machine. I can change the boot drive order and it will boot up Vista. Allan Streib wrote: "Kaleb C. Striplin" writes: this is a desktop. I downloaded winamp and it doenst seem near as bad as playing with windows media player. Still does it slightly every now

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-17 Thread Allan Streib
"Kaleb C. Striplin" writes: > this is a desktop. I downloaded winamp and it doenst seem near as bad > as playing with windows media player. Still does it slightly every > now and then, but not as bad it doesnt seem like. It's just Vista hogging all the resources. Allan -- 1983 300D

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-17 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
this is a desktop. I downloaded winamp and it doenst seem near as bad as playing with windows media player. Still does it slightly every now and then, but not as bad it doesnt seem like. Craig McCluskey wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:41:56 -0600 "Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote: it does it on CD'

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-17 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:41:56 -0600 "Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote: > it does it on CD's or mp3 files. > > Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: > > When listening to music, or even playing a video, the audio seems to > > drag at times. While this is going on, I check and have plenty of > > memory and cpu space

Re: [MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-17 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
it does it on CD's or mp3 files. Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: When listening to music, or even playing a video, the audio seems to drag at times. While this is going on, I check and have plenty of memory and cpu space available, could this be a sound card issue? Its built into the motherboard on

[MBZ] OT, dragging audio

2008-12-17 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
When listening to music, or even playing a video, the audio seems to drag at times. While this is going on, I check and have plenty of memory and cpu space available, could this be a sound card issue? Its built into the motherboard on this emachine. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 92 300S