Re: Good Microsoft TV ad!

Steve de Mena wrote:
GreyCloud wrote:
speaker wrote:
In article <sdidneT4iI83sXfUnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
GreyCloud <cumulus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


The only real advantage that Leopard has is when you are running VMWare Fusion.
I don't run windows in there tho, but I do run Solaris 10 and a couple of linux distros.
If I do something stupid in a hurry that screws up the os, I can always drag the virtual machine
folder for that os to the trash and then go to Time Machine and go back before I made the mistake
and restore that os. Takes about two minutes to restore, which is way preferred over doing an os
reinstall or having to fool around in safe mode to correct it.
XCode is at version 3.1.x and is a big improvement over XCode 2. Other than that there really isn't much
different to brag about. I use the old IBM to talk to the old VAXstation 4000. But both are now getting
pretty old, hardware wise and may fail any day. I'm using putty for a terminal simulator on windows to
OpenVMS. Too bad that putty can't do X windows tho.

Well, all of the above is a good example regarding the complexity and hassles of current operating systems - Linux excluded, of course - unless you consider the fact that a lot of drivers are not on the installation discs and you have to download them. Years ago, I quit using PCs and started using a Mac because I was tired of always having to tinker with the OS and deal with endless updates of Windows and virus software when all I wanted to do was work and play with my computer and enjoy it. Macs allowed me to do that.

Same here. I got tired of windows and the hassles I had with it.

I still have a PC so if I need to use it, I'd rather turn it on than install another OS on the Mac - I prefer to keep OS X pure without a Windows or Linux partition - I picked up Parallels in a low-price deal but have never used it. So, I don't claim to know much about how it works but the idea of a virtual partition or however VMWare works sounds better than having an actual Windows partition subject to virus problems, which, I think, is how the Mac software that allows dual booting works (I don't even remember the name of it, so you see how unimportant that feature is to me.)

All VMware does is create a folder on your mac. It is called Virtual Machine.
I have Solaris 10 64-bit, Suse Linux 64-bit, and Ubuntu 64-bit.
If the linux install goes well, but the distro doesn't work well, all I have to do is go to Finder
and then to Virtual Machines folder and drag that linux distro to the trash. POOF! It is gone
without any troubles to OS X. I've never trusted the idea of partioning a mac drive for windows
and I don't see any real need or expense to do so. If I really had a need for windows, I'd be better
off just getting a cheapy PC. One thing that VMware can't do is right, and for a reason, is if your guest os
has Netbeans with GlassFish server installed and you have Netbeans for OS X with GlassFish server running,
you lock up the OS X GlassFish and guest os GlassFish if you aren't careful to keep the port numbers different.
Identical port numbers on two concurrently running oses causes a vast slow down and takes some time shutdown things.

Were you bridging the guest OS or NAT? If the guest OS had a different IP address than the host can't understand how there could be a conflict.


Not in this case. Both instances of GlassFish are on the host in both OS X
and Linux. Both instances of GlassFish used the same port address and
neither of them went out to the general world. GlassFish is a server program.
Unfortunately, I forgot to change the one in Linux to a different port address.
So, the beachball came up for quite a while and it too patience under OS X
to just get the process monitor up so I could kill GlassFish. After that, things cleared up
and I was able to shutdown Linux. But nothing was harmed... I figure it was just a conflict
between two programs.
I'm not sure why VMWare didn't isolate the two.


--
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo.
American Government official (1863-1941).
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