On Wednesday 08 April 2009, you wrote: > "Rion D'Luz" <[email protected]> writes: > > Since Safari is Moz based, my expectations are not too anxious for Macs > > (anyone know of safari4linux?), > > Safari is WebKit based, an entirely different engine from Gecko/Mozilla, > and it does behave quite differently from Mozilla at times. > > There are WebKit(/GTK) browsers for linux in development (see "midori"), > and Chrome is still being ported to MacOSX and Linux. I'd love to see > at least the process-per-tab approach come to be in firefox so I could > run Pandora and Google Reader as isolated apps w/o interfering with the > rest of the wooly wild web. Thanks for the correction and elaboration. And you're spot on about threading! I can't tell you how many times the sessionMgr saved my butt when one of my 30tab/5window|4cooliris instances (of two - rootFF2-n-rionFF3) vanishes in a poof! Per-threading is a great advancement! Chrome--n-screen control is next:) > > > > On another Note (no surprise), does anyone have info to offer regarding > > creating an VirtualBox XP image > > that i can throw on a USBstick? All my VBimages are Linux; can XP even run > > under VB (w/out vt-tech)? > > Microsoft offers gratis "IE Application Compatibility" images in Virtual > PC format: > http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compatibility-images-virtualbox > > VirtualBox (2.1.x) knows how to convert them; they run for me without > all that qemu-img convert crap (VBoxManage can do the conversion > directly), and without any of the mentioned BSOD crap, either, > thankfully. Cool - are you speaking from experience of using this? Did you have to write|mod any scripts or wrappers? How big is the image?
> > Windows 7 beta was (?) available for a gratis download for testing > purposes, which included IE8 RC2; I think the though the beta window > might be closed, now, though. Since I've been using that, IE8 has > passed "candidate" status and has been fully released, and Windows7 is > nearing RC/gold-master itself, so that might no longer be an option. JMan, why do you know so much about windows? I got a crappy XP station smb'd to a linux PDC collecting dust and that's where my windows awareness ends. Is MS/W7 the alt to vista? Nt? W2000? (does it contain drm?) > > In any case, both run totally fine as guests on my > Gentoo/VirtualBox-2.1.4 host. I had success with VirtualBox-1.6.6 for > those VMs, too … ironically, it was my development *Gentoo* guest that > kernel panic'ed during boot under vbox-1.6 that works fine under > vbox-2.1.4. Anyways, vbox-2 is way better than 1.6. apt-cache search virtualbox: virtualbox - Sun xVM VirtualBox virtualbox-2.0 - Sun xVM VirtualBox virtualbox-2.1 - Sun xVM VirtualBox looks like i'm in good shape; can you burn me a copy(s) on a USBstick? Do you know of any reason why it wouldnt boot from it? I know you like beer so i'm prepared to recip in factors of 6:) I dontknow why i need it except for browser testing (IE and FF); but this is one example of the benes of virtualization on the workstation AOT server-space. But thinking about it raises another ? Mem==Correct one could only use 1 IE version/host. Is that still the case, or can i have IE[6-8] installed on the same image? > > > > Finally, thanks to all who came to the Alchemist for jolly good time! > > Totally! :) > I think we need another like it to further flest-out the 1st Event :)
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