Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sun Sep 20 19:15:48 CDT 2009
Air is like sex...it's not important unless you're not getting any. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 5:07 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VirtualBox Questions Thanks all. I found the magic setting. When creating the VM, I got a couple of messages saying something like "your NVidia does not support this, proceed at your peril". I chose to proceed and guess what, my NVidia chip does support these higher resolutions and thus larger frame sizes. Kewl! As I write this, I have Windows Server 2008 as the main bootup, plus VMs consisting of XP+Bitnami Rubystack and XP+Office 2007, and also Ubuntu. I like this a LOT. In addition, I installed the Guest Additions (available from the VirtualBox Devices menu -- last item on the menu) and this install totally liberated the VMs and AM (Actual Machine or base OS, call it what you wish). This setup is totally amazing. I confess that I haven't spent much time at all with Hyper-V and VMWare, but I am sooo satisfied with VirtualBox that I have no plans to go beyond this. I have two instances of XP and one instance of Ubuntu Linux all riding atop the base instance of Windows Server 2008 R2, and I am one happy camper! Meanwhile, I have some Mandarin to learn and some Mandarin-to-English lessons to prepare. Compared with English, Mandarin is a world apart. The concepts of tense and person do not affect the verbs, for example. This (from the Chinese point of view) is a huge stumbling block, so in my half of the lessons, I must introduce the concept of tense. This is causing me to revisit stuff I learned 40+ years ago and can barely recall. I have numerous cobwebs to dust away, and rediscover the meaning of "past pluperfect" and the conditional tenses and so on. Wow. It's been Never since I had to explain these, and it's a stretch for me to reach back into the definitions and re-activate their meanings and intent. In sum, I am learning three languages at once. The obvious two are Cantonese and Mandarin, but I am also (re)learning English. There is an old phrase by one of the linguistic pioneers, I forget whom, but long before Chomsky, which says "Don't ask a fish to explain water." By extension, don't ask a person to explain air. "Without it we would die" is about all that we can say about it, whether from Fish or Human. This reminds me of APL. I once worked with a financial wiz whose linguistic specialty was APL and he even had a special keyboard designed for APL programmers. I know virtually nothing about APL but was forced into interpreting some of his code and to patch into his results. APL has numerous commands that execute matrix-multipication and numerous other dances upon the numbers. All of it went way over my head. But what I did notice and admire about the language was its concision. What might have taken 100 lines of C and 1000 lines of VB.NET or C#.NET or Eiffel etc., took a single line (albeit incomprehensible to anyone outside the priesthood). Anything doable in any programming language is by definition translatable to another language. And therein lies the problem. Anders has addressed this problem and he is a much smarter man than I. I walk in his shadows, at the best of times, but in fact I am a few kilometres behind him, to put it most optimistically. Now and then, we encounter a Great Mind, and Anders exhibits all the qualities of this category. I would love to sit in a room with him for an hour, in the hope that some particles of his genus might enfuse my body and I might grow from the experience. A. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Arthur > > That is probably the setting in the VM for screen size (size of > Desktop) > > /gustav > > >>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 20-09-2009 01:26 >>> > > .. I cannot remember what I did to create the nice big XP window, but > that's how I would like the BitNami XP installation to appear in a > window sized similarly. > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Semi-retired SQL guru, interested in interesting projects not YAFOES (yet another friendly order entry system). _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com