Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
AIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Jul 14 14:40:11 2006 Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? Yeah I thought so.. Some people joke or rumor that apple is going to buy adobe, and that would be great if it happened; Never have to wait for Mac software to c

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 14 July 2006 15:13, Mingo Hagen wrote: > Well... you could of course get Parallels or QEMU and install windows on > that and then get the free version of VirtualPC, or would that be > horribly slow?. It'd still be near native. Both VPC and Parallels use the Vx stuff in the newer Apple C

RE: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the feedback, Larry, et al... Rick -Original Message- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? >So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Mingo Hagen
Well... you could of course get Parallels or QEMU and install windows on that and then get the free version of VirtualPC, or would that be horribly slow?. Mingo. Rick Faircloth wrote: > Sorry...I checked...looks like it $249 for Virtual PC for Mac...but who > knows? Maybe they'll soon give

RE: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Rick Faircloth
Sorry...I checked...looks like it $249 for Virtual PC for Mac...but who knows? Maybe they'll soon give that away, too! Rick -Original Message- From: B V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should

RE: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Rick Faircloth
are server with Windows 2003 Server and CF7, and Linux, just to have someplace to test Win 2003 Server/CF7 and the Linux OS. Sound correct? Rick -Original Message- From: B V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual P

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread B V
Yeah I thought so.. Some people joke or rumor that apple is going to buy adobe, and that would be great if it happened; Never have to wait for Mac software to come out. On 7/14/06, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. > >

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Larry Lyons
>So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. > >Not having used Virtual PC or anything like it, I have to ask.are >any of you using Virtual PC or something similar in you CF work? > >Other ways? Should I bother? > >Rick Rick, I've been using Virtual PC since Connectix released

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 14 July 2006 14:08, B V wrote: > Does that mean I will be able to have the full felx experience that windows > users have once I have installed the JVM, eclipse and the SDK? (And be able > to deploy the builder on top of that) Again, if you mean the Flash player, yes. If you mean the Fl

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread B V
Does that mean I will be able to have the full felx experience that windows users have once I have installed the JVM, eclipse and the SDK? (And be able to deploy the builder on top of that) On 7/14/06, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 14 July 2006 13:28, B V wrote: > > I don'

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 14 July 2006 13:28, B V wrote: > I don't know, Adobe didn't list "mac" under reequirements, and the download > is an exe. But I geuss you could also see my previous post about CFLINUX. > So, how would I run FLEX 2 on a Mac without VPC? I have a G5 Is there > soem special hack? Runni

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 14 July 2006 13:16, Rob Wilkerson wrote: > product that didn't used to be free. My understanding, though, is > that the free version is taking over for GSX. Yeah, they are only going to charge for the full blown enterprise VMWare server - basically a slimed down Linux that sits under a

RE: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Sean Coyne
You can download the SDK and use the command line to compile. -Original Message- From: B V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? I don't know, Adobe didn't list &

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread B V
I don't know, Adobe didn't list "mac" under reequirements, and the download is an exe. But I geuss you could also see my previous post about CFLINUX. So, how would I run FLEX 2 on a Mac without VPC? I have a G5 Is there soem special hack? On 7/14/06, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I use VMWare and *love* it. It gives me a nicely self-contained environment for trying anything and everything that might destroy the system. If it does, then rolling back is easy if you've planned ahead and taken snapshots at critical points. I run several dev and testing servers on it and have

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 14 July 2006 13:06, B V wrote: > Personally, I just run it on my Mac, but now that you mention it's free > Flex 2, here I come! By the way, can you give me the link? What makes you think you need VPC to run or build Flex 2 on the Mac ? -- Tom Chiverton

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Mingo Hagen
Yes you should! If not for virtual servers then at least for testing on multiple windows/linux configurations. Set one up identical to your clients config, that should help in the development process. You could also set one up as a development server, but I guess the speed would be an issue the

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Casey Dougall
man, they will give anyone a wikipedia page now days ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_PC direct link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx On 7/14/06, B V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I just run it on my Mac, but now that you mention it's > free > Fle

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread B V
Sorry, my bad, I thought you were referring to virtual pc for mac :(. Darn, I really wanted to run Flex 2, and IE 7.. On 7/14/06, B V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I just run it on my Mac, but now that you mention it's > free Flex 2, here I come! By the way, can you give me th

Re: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread B V
Personally, I just run it on my Mac, but now that you mention it's free Flex 2, here I come! By the way, can you give me the link? On 7/14/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. > > Not having used Virtual PC or anything

OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?

2006-07-14 Thread Rick Faircloth
So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. Not having used Virtual PC or anything like it, I have to ask.are any of you using Virtual PC or something similar in you CF work? Other ways? Should I bother? Rick ~