OT Question for the Compu-Savy

Dave Cartman wrote:

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

When it matures. I can't lose work time finding bugs in version 1.0 of
anything.

-klaus

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klaus wrote:

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

Which GUI is that?

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Alan Baker wrote:
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klaus wrote:

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

-klaus

Which GUI is that?


Ugh.. Win32...

-klaus

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Dave Cartman wrote:

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.

And it costs what, 10 bucks?
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Alan Baker wrote:

Which GUI is that?

It took me a while to catch on to you. You have minimal comprehension.
You're plagarizing others. I thought you were just cutting and pasting,
but that post went over your head.
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klaus wrote:
Alan Baker wrote:

Which GUI is that?

Ugh.. Win32...

That was intuitively obvious. Baker is a fake.
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According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

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klaus wrote:
Dave Cartman wrote:

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

When it matures. I can't lose work time finding bugs in version 1.0 of
anything.

Jesus dude, I think they're still finding bugs in Windows 98...
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According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

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Marty wrote:

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

Get a Mac. Haven't you learned anything from this discussion? UNIX is the
genetic code of the internet. UNIX interoperability is indispensible.
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According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

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(Jeff Davis) wrote:

In article ,
Dave Cartman wrote:

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.

And it costs what, 10 bucks?

Close. ~ $75 plus a Windows XP disc.

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(Jeff Davis) wrote:

In article ,
klaus wrote:
Alan Baker wrote:

Which GUI is that?

Ugh.. Win32...

That was intuitively obvious. Baker is a fake.

Actually, no, it wasn't.

There are GUIs specifically for things such as microcontrollers.

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According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."


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"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone and how he missed
the demo of the iPhone speakerphone.