Comments on: A good day for open-source software http://301south.net/2009/12/a-good-day-for-oss/ (an exercise for the reader) Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:11:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: brandon http://301south.net/2009/12/a-good-day-for-oss/comment-page-1/#comment-190 brandon Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:25:14 +0000 http://301south.net/?p=148#comment-190 Thanks for the tip- does that work for hardware too? At this point (as far as I know) the only thing that still doesn't work on his Win7 box is the scanner. I'm pretty impressed with VMware Player- I like the network configuration options. I don't quite understand how it handles hardware yet (it keeps popping up a box telling me hints about USB-device access that I don't quite understand how to operationalize). But in general it's been very impressive. Win2k comes with internet explorer 5, by the way- I noticed it starts up very quickly. Thanks for the tip- does that work for hardware too? At this point (as far as I know) the only thing that still doesn’t work on his Win7 box is the scanner.

I’m pretty impressed with VMware Player- I like the network configuration options. I don’t quite understand how it handles hardware yet (it keeps popping up a box telling me hints about USB-device access that I don’t quite understand how to operationalize). But in general it’s been very impressive.

Win2k comes with internet explorer 5, by the way- I noticed it starts up very quickly.

]]> By: James http://301south.net/2009/12/a-good-day-for-oss/comment-page-1/#comment-167 James Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:47:05 +0000 http://301south.net/?p=148#comment-167 Yay, VMware Player! If John is running Windows 7 Professional or higher and is using a VT-capable CPU (pretty much any modern 64-bit CPU), he can run the "XP Mode" VM (free from Microsoft). Yay, VMware Player!

If John is running Windows 7 Professional or higher and is using a VT-capable CPU (pretty much any modern 64-bit CPU), he can run the “XP Mode” VM (free from Microsoft).

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