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Skriven 2009-09-20 09:03:24 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 56888 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Virtuous virtual  ?
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Alan, taking a minute off the piano, wrote:

 AZ> 1) re. Virtual sessions-- they're handy if you mostly want to work in
 AZ> one environment, but from time to time- a single, sometimes-used
 AZ> program, for instance, is needed that doesn't support that
 AZ> environment... for instance, a Mac-using web-designer who wants to see
 AZ> how well (or poorly) his pages appear when viewed in IE for Windows or
 AZ> Firefox on Ubuntu.... Or a Windows 7 using web-designer who wants to see
 AZ> how his pages will appear when viewed in IE 6 in XP.

	I have this solved, I have enough machines here to do this "virtualisation"
sans going virtual. It is a question of moving my stool about 5' to the NW and
I am on an U'u machine, it runs XP too. Is this virtualization of sort ?

 AZ> It's a lot more efficient than either rebooting or maintaining multiple
 AZ> computers on the same desk!

	OK, it would have to be like another step away from RTC ?

 AZ> Not necessarily something you need, however. Note, though, that
 AZ> virtualization may becoming 'mainstream' in the next few years.

	Then, I would have been downstream. I am not the one trying to stop progress,
it this is the way to have it, so be it !

 AZ> a particular virtualization system
 AZ> (for instance, VMWare) have Windows (or whatever OS) thinking its using
 AZ> the same set of virtual hardware- regardless of the real hardware
 AZ> installed. In theory, the user would never notice the difference.

	You are telling me. Nothing more frustrating than going to a newer OS and
finding that some, most of your good up to now devices are not recognized any
longer because of the "improved" way that the new OS operates. I have had to
fool quite a few into thinking that yes they can still be used. Paint shop Pro
is one, it keeps giving me a notice that I should work in the Registry, I click
on OK and it works fine.

 AZ> 2) re. Macs vs Windows for graphics & publishing-- the major
 AZ> applications: the Adobe suite of software, Quark XPress, etc are
 AZ> available, in pretty much feature-identical versions for both Windows
 AZ> and Mac. Many of the add-ons are also available for both platforms.
 AZ> Some, however, remain Mac-only... In video and sound production, Apple
 AZ> has produced several well thought-of applications that are favoured by
 AZ> many in those fields: Final Cut Pro for video editing and Logic for
 AZ> sound recording and editing- and made sure these are Mac-only.

 AZ> So there are far more Windows-users in these fields than was true a
 AZ> decade or 15 years ago... but there are still many who continue to be
 AZ> Mac-users.

	In my circle of Wormy users, I know of one who is really using her machine to
the fullest. She works into designing the Québec City Le Soleil daily. The rest
of them are ignoring all that the machine is capable of doing, thus my grippe
about waisting all that money when for a pittance, they could buy a 2nd-hand
typewriter and some 54› stamps. The Wormy is a great machine but I was not born
cute and my mind is set on this useless "vanity" argument. ;-)

	You stand on no authority as you get yours free.  Hooots !

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