Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 10 14:00:28 CST 2011
AF> In my grey years, I have lost my concern for who wins >this samurai battle, and I no longer care. Hear, hear! PB ---- On 1/10/2011 11:36 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Hello all, > > Am I losing my mind or is Oracle performing a lobotomy on me? Back when the > VM was called Sun VirtualBox, it effortlessly let you view all the Windows > drives and folders therein. That was way back in Version 7 or perhaps even > earlier, and it just naturally did it; I didn't have to do a thing. But now, > running Oracle VM VirtualBox, and then explored the menus and icons, I seem > to be trapped in this VM, with no way to view any files outside its initial > footprint. > > Am I wrong, or has the software/hardware world reduced to Ellison vs. Jobs, > the first round, and Gates quietly waiting for the final. I used to hate > Gates for closing them, but compared to his opponents, they're leaving the > gates wide open, perhaps to their detriment. > > So far as I can see, my best option is to nuke everything concerning Oracle > and return to Sun VirtualBox and then I'm free to visit the whole computer > rather than one narrow slice of it. Am I wrong? Is there a way to make > Oracle Sun VM wake up and smell the coffee in the Windows? > > Perhaps I don't read enough any more.... I've cancelled most of my > e-subscriptions to eWeek etc., all and any DVD-movie subscriptions, etc. > etc. > In my grey years, I have lost my concern for who wins this samurai battle, > and I no longer care. I am so out of the loop (or just possibly into some > new loop, expelled in the way Pluto was from the local List of Planets, and > returned to Asteroid (freshman) status. I think I'll uninstall Oracle > VirtualBox and return to the Sun version. I don't care whether I'm a few > versions behind, so long as it works. I don't even care if Oracle pulls the > Support plug, I have the docs downloaded anyway. So there, Larry! > > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >