Tonight = Virtual Box & Windows XP install on my iMac

21 Comments

1. Carmelyne Thompson on April 18, 2012 at 8:31 pm

   Good luck Lynette! 🙂

2. James Liddil on April 18, 2012 at 8:33 pm

   ugh. perhaps try to get windoze7? Not that I can help since I am a PC

3. DIA on April 18, 2012 at 8:33 pm

   Best of luck – that does not sound fun at all!

4. Lynette Young on April 18, 2012 at 8:39 pm

   +James Liddil for Windows 7 I'll just run it on a separate machine. I need to install Dragon Dictate and the only decent version around will run on XP – so that's what I'm going with. It's the only application I need XP for, so I'm not super worried about anything else. Well, maybe some games…..

5. James Liddil on April 18, 2012 at 8:42 pm

   So Nuance doesn't make a mac version? odd. But I see where you are coming from

6. Michael Griffith on April 18, 2012 at 8:42 pm

   I've been carting around an XP VM image for … too long. It's a bit of a miracle the thing still works, I'm sure.

7. Ken Harkey on April 18, 2012 at 8:43 pm

   waiting for the pix of the 3.1 inside of xp inside of 7 inside of mac

8. James Liddil on April 18, 2012 at 8:45 pm

   but aren't macs perfect and windoze evil and Steve Jobs walked on water (pure sarcasm)

9. Ken Harkey on April 18, 2012 at 8:47 pm

   Linus Torvalds ….nuff said LOL

10. Gerry Gasca on April 18, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    +Ken Harkey Linus only made the kernel not getting you very far without Richard Stallman and the GNU project. I'd go with Linux 'nuf said.

11. Ken Harkey on April 18, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    +Gerry Gasca I am very well aware of that. I just feel like messing with people right now, its hot, and im bored

12. James Liddil on April 18, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    VMS rules

13. Lynette Young on April 18, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    +James Liddil yes, but it's much more expensive than the PC version and rumor has it that isn't not nearly as functional as Dragon Dictate 10. Since we have a gazillion licenses for XP I grabbed one for a VirtualBox install. I only did this because I didn't want to jump back and forth between machines to 'type' and do work.

    I think we have four Macs, two Hackintoshes & 12 PCs IN OUR HOUSE alone.

14. James Liddil on April 18, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    +Lynette Young you trumped me. I'm not worthy

15. Lynette Young on April 18, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    We are a house of geeks for sure! We also have a few servers but will soon switch to rack mounts in the basement. It's a sickness, I know!

16. Matt Makowsky on April 18, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    Oh well, I've had an engine flame out a few times in an
    aircraft, and I was kind of curious as to whether it was
    gonna light up again, things of that nature, but uh, they
    seemed to work out…

17. Michael Griffith on April 18, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Rackmounts are only good when space is a premium. Otherwise it's far cheaper (but uglier) to go with small towers and shelving. I dunno, maybe ya'll have some connections, but every time I've been tempted .. yikes.

18. Lynette Young on April 18, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    +Michael Griffith we (my husband and I) are lucky enough to have corporate clients that donate out their old-to-them but perfectly-fine-for-us rack mount servers. I'd never buy one! We are all about recycling 😉

19. Michael Griffith on April 18, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Good, nothing pains me more than to see those laying around with slashed RAM slots or whatever "mandatory destruction" required by HIPAA or something stupid.

20. Lynette Young on April 18, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Oh no +Michael Griffith we actually just recycled to the reclamation center in our county a laptop with a 128MB hard drive. If it powers on, we use it!

21. Raul Colon on April 19, 2012 at 7:11 am

    +Lynette Young hmmm I have not seen those in a while either! 🙂