From: Robert Comer 

>I thought I had Vista ready to go at home last night...for some
>freakin' reason it thinks my account is a guest account there, so I've
>got to figure it out.  It took about 20 minutes before it completed
>the logon.  She's pretty and blonde and making me feel blonde too.

Welcome to Vista! 

>I can see the writing on the wall.  Won't be long before we'll be
>running well in excess of 4GB on the desktop.

For you guys, I totally agree, for me, still not in the foreseeable future,
5 to 10 years at least. (but it'll come eventually, if only for the OS.)

>I will be do that soon, I think, on the server.  Probably my next book
>later this summer.

I do more on the client side than server -- any special testing or
development is done in a virtual machine on my desktop.  I plan on doing a
bit more server wise soon at work, but it'll probably still be running on
my desktop, as my desktop is way better equipped than any of my servers.
(except the AS/400, of course)

I've run a mirror for Barktopus in a VM for the last couple of years at
home. (Win2000 pro in the VM running in a Virtual Server VM and the host
has been either Vista or XP MCE)  It really doesn't even effect my main use
of the PC at all, I don't even shut it down to play games on the PC. 
Before I needed a separate PC to do the mirror, now I save the power.  I'm
down from 5 powered on computers in my computer room to 2 powered on, and a
third that doesn't run all the time...

--
Bob Comer



On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:54:37 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:17:51 -0400, Robert Comer
> wrote:
>
>>It really ends up being handy at times -- I don't always have to go to
>>work to get something done.
>
>I thought I had Vista ready to go at home last night...for some
>freakin' reason it thinks my account is a guest account there, so I've
>got to figure it out.  It took about 20 minutes before it completed
>the logon.  She's pretty and blonde and making me feel blonde too.
>
>>AutoCAD is a bit more demanding than most of the apps I run.  Up until
>>I get my new machine in, 4GB was the max I could have anyway -- the
>>new one can handle 8GB, but I'll probably go with 3GB to begin with.
>
>I can see the writing on the wall.  Won't be long before we'll be
>running well in excess of 4GB on the desktop.
>
>>My only high memory requirements is any virtual OS's I might be
>>running...
>
>I will be do that soon, I think, on the server.  Probably my next book
>later this summer.
>
>- Richard

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