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2010-12-23 , 00:39
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Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
Yes we do have our dark side,
but take heart - putting winme in a vm on the n900
would be quite an achievement worthy of notice.
We would at least wait until you got it stable
before breaking out the tar and feathers.

(...)

Where in the world do you get such an optimistic figure of a mere 21 minutes?
That reads like poetry! Poetry in VMotion.

It's my prejudice since about 1995 that anyone doing Linuxy stuff is more concerned with tweaking efficiency than completeness. An unrockable world image I developed at the same time as I developed the thumb rule "never expect something to be implemented just because it's in the man file".

Also, Windows 7 boot faster than XP, and didn't we already see a Windows XP tuber? If it was just Windows 95, then I guess we'll have to pi that estimate. Though, all estimates should be pied anyway, you knew this, right?
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2010-12-23 , 00:57
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Originally Posted by volt View Post
That reads like poetry! Poetry in VMotion.

It's my prejudice since about 1995 that anyone doing Linuxy stuff is more concerned with tweaking efficiency than completeness. An unrockable world image I developed at the same time as I developed the thumb rule "never expect something to be implemented just because it's in the man file".

Also, Windows 7 boot faster than XP, and didn't we already see a Windows XP tuber? If it was just Windows 95, then I guess we'll have to pi that estimate. Though, all estimates should be pied anyway, you knew this, right?
It varies,
but speed helps as long as it does not cost stability.
(If as we need, stable and correct data throughput is mandatory)
We just moved some XP machines into Mandriva+vbox images
so we could get away from the virus/trojan issues
and keep legacy production software running in Xp
on brand new hard disks (wd10ears) that gives Xp fits
due to alignment issues. All a winning move it appears.

Xp actually seems quite a bit faster inside the vm,
and by making the network locally limited it seems not to
get bogged down by phoning the Redmond mothership
every few minutes.
And no syrupy antivirus stuff necessary either
- we just check stuff in the share folder using the linux clamav
(I know, not very good but hey it works for the ancient viruses we see).

So, in reflection running wincrap inside a vm might actually
improve the experience quite a bit if done properly.
(properly, improve and wincrap in the same sentence - ha)
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Yes... Once I dabbled my fingers into virtualization with the work servers, I felt like I wanted that for everything, home, cell phone, door bell... Unfortunately, not optimal when you actually want to use your hardware directly. But so many useful areas of applications, and so many advantages over time...
 
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WinMo on the N900. Hell yeah... if Maemo is gonna die due to lack of official support, might as well do it in style by being able to run everything from Android, to OS X, to Debian to Win95 to WinMo.

I'm personally holding out for BeOS.
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2010-12-23 , 02:08
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
WinMo on the N900. Hell yeah... if Maemo is gonna die due to lack of official support, might as well do it in style by being able to run everything from Android, to OS X, to Debian to Win95 to WinMo.

I'm personally holding out for BeOS.
If I can get my relatives to tell me which basement I left my
OSI 1p
in maybe we could extract the code from that as well

But for sheer fun running Atari apps might be more interesting
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