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On a slightly different topic... I have a Thinkpad T60 laptop. Last week was the third time I've lost a hard drive in 18 month. This time, instead of another Hitachi 7200RPM SATA II 2.5" hard Drive, I bought a Kingston SSDNow V series Solid State Device. I had already bumped the RAM up from 2GB to 4...

Hell on earth is being the one guy that has to onsite during a highly escalated and highly visible "critical situation" and do the live debug to determine the source of the issue. Try that 150 times. It gets old real quick. Modern compilers produce symbol files as well as the compiled output. If you...

VMware has a P2V tool. Unless you plan on using the stripped down ESXi, it's not free. XEN is free. Hyper-V is free, Virtualbox OSE is free. If you're used to unix/linux, you'd probably go with XEN or Virtualbox. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/pro...

If you're partitioning, then what you're really talking about is dual booting. You can boot into one or the other. If you run a hypervisor, then you're taling about virtualizing and the guest OS disk is simply a file on the virtualization platform. It sounds like you want to keep your current XP set...

The formerly Sun now Oracle Virtual box is similar in many respects to Xen. You could certainly use that. There is no need to partition the disk. Once you install the hypervisor, your guest OS virtual machine's disk is simply a file.

J

The first language I ever used was Fortran 77. Lots of assember back in the day. Forth, Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Java, C#, you name it. These days I still dabble with programming, but I'm not a programmer. I spent many years doing live onsite debug for major software vendor. I don't even do much of th...

The first language I ever used was Fortran 77. Lots of assember back in the day. Forth, Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Java, C#, you name it. These days I still dabble with programming, but I'm not a programmer. I spent many years doing live onsite debug for major software vendor. I don't even do much of th...

Wow,

1998-1999 I worked for General Dynamics. I started with GTE DSSD. When GTE merged with Bell Atlantic and became Verizon, that division was sold to GD. It seems Veridian was aquired by GD in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veridian

J

Langmuir Probe? Like the ones used in the semiconductor industry? Say this one, for example: http://scisys.com/upload/SmartProbe-Brochure.pdf

J

You could start here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

You already have Windows 7. The easiest path would be to use what you have.

J

Tom wrote: More than a decade later, the problem can only have gotten worse. Nobody has a clue what is in some of these libraries and headers any more. It's not that hard. You'd be surprised. If you really what to know what the error codes defined in the headers are, then go get http://www.microsoft...

If you'd like, I can export a VHD with Ubuntu 9.10, zip it, and send it to you. It's a differencing VHD, and is about 1.5GB zipped. You can download the XP VHD from Microsoft for free, just use the link in my previous post.

J

My Lenovo T60 Laptop has 4GB of RAM and is running Windows Server 2008 R2. The Hard Drive is an SSD. That made more difference than anything else.

As I type, I'm loading another Ubuntu VM, and I don't notice any performance difference.

Server 2008 and Windows 7 are the same core.

J

Just use the XP virtual machine in Windows 7. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtua ... nload.aspx It runs in a VHD. I'd actually chreate a VHD for Ubuntu as well, and then just set a boot from VHD option to boot to Ubuntu.

The good news is the i3-530 is VT-x capable and supports setting execute bit disable. That means you're set for any of the hardware asisted hypervisors. With 6GB in the system, you'll likely only see the OS report 5.5 or 5.75. This is because PCIx uses a window. It's DDR3 ram, probably 8500U, so you...