OT Question for the Compu-Savy

In article ,
klaus wrote:

Marty wrote:

You can boot to Windows on that platform if you
need to run some app that doesn't run on OS X.

And you get to support two OS'es and still have the virus issues.

I run my Macbook Pro like this. I have 10 GB partition for Windows XP
and a 190 GB partition for my Mac side. I also run Parallels
Virtualisation which can now virtualise my XP partition while I'm
running OS X.

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.

Blah. Blah blah.

D

Dave Cartman wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.


The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

-klaus

klaus wrote:

Dave Cartman wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.

The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

Likewise, with the exception of some MBR thing that did nothing but
replicate itself back in the MSDOS days. But aren't we all rich enough to
own several machines and a KVM switch? Having to reboot into a different
system is a real pain.

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In article ,
klaus wrote:

Dave Cartman wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.


The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

-klaus

You don't have to reboot, Klaus.

There's this nifty little utility called "Parallels", and it allows you
to run Windows in a virtual machine *while* Mac OS X is running. So you
have the best of both worlds available all the time.

BTW, what software do you need to earn a living that doesn't run under
Mac OS X?

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the demo of the iPhone speakerphone.

In article ,
klaus wrote:


The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

That is great that you've never had a computer virus. -No sarcasm here,
I'm truly happy for you. I've had friends who've lost all sorts of
digital pictures and movies and what-not because of some malicious
jokers work)

The cool thing about Parallels Virtualisation ( www.parallels.com ) is
that it allows you to run XP simultaneously at speeds as fast or nearly
as fast as if you were running XP on a native machine. You can flip
between OS X and XP as easily as you switch between web pages. It's
slick and it works as promised.

Just out of curiousity and truly not to pick an argument, but are you
planning on switching to Vista?

D

In article ,
The Real Bev wrote:

klaus wrote:

Dave Cartman wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.

The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

Likewise, with the exception of some MBR thing that did nothing but
replicate itself back in the MSDOS days. But aren't we all rich enough to
own several machines and a KVM switch? Having to reboot into a different
system is a real pain.

Hi Bev,

As I mentioned to Klaus, it's unnecessary to boot into XP (although you
can if you want to) but by using Parallels Virtualisation you can simply
run XP at the same time. Even cut and paste works between them and
programs show up on the dock just like they were OS X applications.
It's really, really slick and fast too.

Dave Cartman wrote:

In article ,
The Real Bev wrote:

klaus wrote:

Dave Cartman wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.

The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

Likewise, with the exception of some MBR thing that did nothing but
replicate itself back in the MSDOS days. But aren't we all rich enough to
own several machines and a KVM switch? Having to reboot into a different
system is a real pain.

Hi Bev,

As I mentioned to Klaus, it's unnecessary to boot into XP (although you
can if you want to) but by using Parallels Virtualisation you can simply
run XP at the same time. Even cut and paste works between them and
programs show up on the dock just like they were OS X applications.
It's really, really slick and fast too.

Does it work with linux?


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become dry and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

In article ,
The Real Bev wrote:

Dave Cartman wrote:

In article ,
The Real Bev wrote:

klaus wrote:

Dave Cartman wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want
to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for
them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let
my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's
fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that
I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.

The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

Likewise, with the exception of some MBR thing that did nothing but
replicate itself back in the MSDOS days. But aren't we all rich enough to
own several machines and a KVM switch? Having to reboot into a different
system is a real pain.

Hi Bev,

As I mentioned to Klaus, it's unnecessary to boot into XP (although you
can if you want to) but by using Parallels Virtualisation you can simply
run XP at the same time. Even cut and paste works between them and
programs show up on the dock just like they were OS X applications.
It's really, really slick and fast too.

Does it work with linux?

Yeah it does!

http://www.parallels.com/products/workstation/faq/

This might be a good time for the disclaimer that I have NO business
relationship with Parallels other than thinking they make a really nifty
utility.

On Mar 5, 7:29 pm, Dave Cartman wrote:
In article ,

klaus wrote:
Marty wrote:

You can boot to Windows on that platform if you
need to run some app that doesn't run on OS X.

And you get to support two OS'es and still have the virus issues.

I run my Macbook Pro like this. I have 10 GB partition for Windows XP
and a 190 GB partition for my Mac side. I also run Parallels
Virtualisation which can now virtualise my XP partition while I'm
running OS X.

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.

Blah. Blah blah.

D

Ah! See, it's even better than I thought.

Next time I purchase a PC, I think I'm going big. Unless Vista turns
out to be great, which is TBD.
--
Marty

Alan Baker wrote:

You don't have to reboot, Klaus.

There's this nifty little utility called "Parallels", and it allows you
to run Windows in a virtual machine *while* Mac OS X is running. So you
have the best of both worlds available all the time.

That's pretty sweet. But I spend enough time administering one
OS. I've been helping a friend with some Mac stuff the last day. Not
something I want to spend my time on. I'd rather be billing or skiing.

BTW, what software do you need to earn a living that doesn't run under
Mac OS X?

Microcontroller cross development. And the GUI I write has to run on
PCs, because that's what the clients have.

-klaus