Early Friday funny

Submitted by tracey on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 7:20pm.

Video is amusing and kind of geeky, but there may be some non-work-safe language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc

Tracey

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Vista question (was RE: Early Friday funny)
Submitted by mark.folmsbee on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 7:35am.

Interesting.

Is there much of a performance hit on this?

Mark Folmsbee
Associate Dean, Computer Services, School of Law
http://washlaw.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sara S. Frug"
Date: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:24 am
Subject: Re: Vista question (was RE: [teknoids] Early Friday funny)
To: Teknoids

> I realize that those running university computer labs have much
> less
> latitude, but if I were running a small not-for-profit, I'd see
> about
> addressing the obsolescence by virtualizing Windows XP to run on a
> Linux
> platform.
>
> VMWare has two free tools available -- VMWare Converter (for
> getting a
> virtual machine image from a current installation) and VMWare
> Player
> (for using the virtual machine). (Microsoft, in its infinite
> generosity,
> has decided to allow a licensed physical machine to run up to four
> virtual machines on the same license.) You can pay them for
> additional
> functionality.
>
> As a tech-friendly non-IT person, I've enjoyed using VMWare Player
> on my
> Windows desktop to test-run various Linux desktops and even
> content
> management system deployments. I've been waiting until I had a few
> days
> to try doing what I've described above. I sense in Tracey a
> kindred
> tinkerer. Perhaps she, I, and some like-minded folks might
> collaborate
> on one of those newfangled CALI wiki tutorials...
>
> --
> Sara S. Frug
> Editor
> Legal Information Institute
> Cornell Law School
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> 607-255-4370
>
>
>
> Tracey McCartney wrote:
> > At 09:38 PM 5/17/2007, you wrote:
> >
> >> While we're on the subject of Vista ...
> >
> > So while we ARE on the subject, and apologies if I missed this, but
> > are many of you upgrading to Vista in your labs, etc.? If we get
> > funded again, I'll be making some decisions along those lines
> for our
> > handful of machines...
> >
> >
> >
> > Tracey
> >
> >
>
>

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