Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 30 05:59:34 CST 2008
Hi Stuart: This most likely has been discussed at length here but I have been away for a while and just have not had the time to dig through many of the conversations. At this moment I am putting together a new LAN for a client and there are a number of systems all with an inter-related hand written POS (I have been building it for almost 20 years on contract). The application is an arcain piece which the client has been completely happy with... and it does everything they need. The program rudely runs on the current systems but tends to make a pig of it's self as its core has little functionality designed to share its space. The app is perfect for VPC. Now which VPC to use. MS VPC, VMWARE or VirtualBox. What is needed is a VPC which will allow an older OS and App to be able to connect, print and mail across the LAN. So which one is best? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:38 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Interesting software Another way to protect your machine: I just bought a new laptop on Friday ( Core 2 Duo 2.4, 4GB Ram, 320GB Hard drive). I've spent the last two days getting it set up including copying everything over from my old laptop and re-installing software.( and I'm not finished yet) First thing I did was instal VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/ Then I set up a clean virtual machine running XP Pro and installed Firefox and a few utilities that I use all the time. I cloned that a few times and set up one with Office 2003 and one with Office 2007, one with Visual Studio and kept one as a clean box. Now I can do all my surfing, downloading and software development and testing in any one of the virtual machines. If something goes wrong, I can either roll it back or just dump the whole thing and clone a new one. It's brilliant. -- Stuart On 29 Nov 2008 at 21:33, Jim Lawrence wrote: > > Hi All: > > Here is an interesting piece of software. This product is supposed to > protect your system from rogue applications. According to my son-in-law the > app has been running on Linux for years but now it has made a move to > Windows. > > This might be an application for those concerned about viruses and malware > and other disruptive products on your system: http://www.sandboxie.com/ . It > comes highly recommended. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com