William Hindman
wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Sat Mar 14 19:16:55 CDT 2009
Bill ...there is a work around to the usb problem ...I don't have a link at the moment but I found it pretty easily when I was first playing with it. William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Bill Patten" <bill_patten at embarqmail.com> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:36 PM To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 Express&VB.NET) > Hi Rocky, > > I to have VPC running on Vista (64) and XP and other OS running on the VPC > do seem much slower. I should receive a quad Processor tomorrow and hope > that it speeds things up. > > I did try the Sun VPC but had several different kinds of errors so I > removed > it. It would sure be nice if MS added USB support to VPC. > > Bill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> > To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > Express&VB.NET) > > > I put VPC on a Vista machine. I find that the virtual machines take a big > performance hit - run and respond visibly slower than native mode. Do you > find that as well? > > > > Rocky Smolin > Beach Access Software > 858-259-4334 > www.e-z-mrp.com > www.bchacc.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart > McLachlan > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:19 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 > Express&VB.NET) > > Hi Steve, > > I'm running installations of XP and Server 2000/2003 on my Vista laptop > as > different development and testing environments. > > In addition to my bare bones image which I just use for cloning, I have > machines with Office 2K, 2K3, 2K7 and SQL Server 2K and 2K3 plus a > machine > with Visual Studio and no office suite of any sort and one with SQL Server > and an SMS Server. > > I really should set up a machine with Office 97 because I have a client > still using a whole bunch of Access 97 apps. I should also set up a Vista > VM and one of these days I will get around to setting up an Ubuntu to play > with :-) > > I don't know about Linux, but the screen resolutions on my Windows > machines > are dynamic. > As I resize the VM's window, the resolution changes> However at times te > OS > gets confused and reports the wromg numbers for resolution in the > Desktop - > Properties - Adavanced window. > > > On 14 Mar 2009 at 12:58, Steve Erbach wrote: > >> Stuart, >> >> I have to admit that installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox was a breeze. I >> can't get better than 800x600 resolution yet, but I think that's >> mainly because I've forgotten everything I ever knew about Linux. I'd >> installed Red Hat 5.x in '99 on a laptop that had Windows 95B already >> on it. And I installed Corel Linux on a Windows 2000 desktop while >> Corel was interested in Linux there for a while back in '00 or '01 or >> so. This is my 3rd time around with Linux. Just don't have a lot of >> time for it... >> >> So, you've installed XP or Vista on VirtualBox? >> >> Steve Erbach >> Neenah, WI >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Stuart McLachlan >> <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: >> > I use and strongly recommend Sun VirtualBox. >> > http://www.virtualbox.org/ >> > >> > It comes either as Open Source under a GNU GPL licence or closed >> > source under a "VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License" . >> > >> > The Personal Use clause is very open: >> > "Personal Use" requires that you use the Product on the same Host >> > Computer where you installed it yourself and that no more than one >> > client connect to that Host Computer at a time for the purpose of > displaying Guest Computers remotely." >> > >> > The closed source version is definitely the one to get, because of its > additonal features. >> > >> > >From reviews on the web, VirtualBox seems to be a better product in >> > >a number of ways and >> > it is under constant development - they come up with a new version >> > about > once a month.. >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Stuart >> > >> > On 14 Mar 2009 at 13:57, Max Wanadoo wrote: >> > >> >> William, >> >> Is virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft free or not. The site says "free > download" >> >> but it is unclear whether that means that after installing it, I >> >> then get only xyz days to use it. >> >> >> >> If not free, what would you recommend? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Max >> >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >