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| stj:
--- Quote from: bd139 on January 31, 2019, 05:37:15 pm ---The “ship buggy shit early” culture of the 00’s and onwards. --- End quote --- lol i buy mice from poundland. they even have spaces on the board for a 100ohm resistor and an led to light the wheel! :-+ btw, they work without any firmware updates. :-DD |
| bd139:
I had a conversation a week ago about those Poundland mice. They’re easy to patch a rubber ducky into. We thought it might be fun to do that to a couple and put them back on the shelves in the shop :-DD They’re actually pretty decent mice. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: bd139 on January 29, 2019, 08:12:42 am ---Some of the ass end consumer SKUs don’t have VT-x for some reason. I bet they do but intel decided to play market segmentation games. --- End quote --- Almost all of the Intel consumer chips are the same silicon. I think there's two, maybe three designs covering the entire range. Of course you're going to get dies consuming more or having outright broken parts towards the edges of the wafer, but most of it is pure segmentation. |
| jmelson:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on January 29, 2019, 10:55:32 am --- A small introduction to virtualization --- End quote --- Yes, I run Ubuntu 12.04 for my main desktop (never run the latest, the bugs haven't been found yet), and then use VirtualBox to run several Windows guest OS's in it. I let VirtualBox set up the generic Windows file system, but then map the user directory to a Linux subdirectory. That makes it easy to move files back and forth on the Linux system, even when the Windows guest OS is not running. Doesn't seem to be any performance issues, either. I use XP for the older apps (like Protel 99 SE) and now they need Windows 7 for my tax software. That is about all that's left that I need Windows for! Jon |
| Circlotron:
--- Quote from: jmelson on January 31, 2019, 10:28:17 pm ---I use XP for the older apps (like Protel 99 SE) --- End quote --- 99SE works well under wine. * Set wine version to Windows 2000 * Set odbc32 and odbccp32 to native in winecfg * Install MDAC 2.8 SP1 & Jet 4.0 (SP8) using WINETRICKS * Run Protel Setup. In the Setup Type screen choose Custom and uncheck NT Drivers * Install SP4 * Install SP6 |
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