From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I really like how the series avoids being overly sentimental in the way
many Hollywood war stories end up - you know, with the mandatory love story
and all that crap. This one is pretty carefull in sticking to the point.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:459d3bc1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Band of Brothers is a great and inspirational series.  I loved it also.
> Major Winters method of assaulting the German artillery positions firing
> on the beaches is still taught today in the military academies as an
> example of how to mount an infantry assault on a fixed position.
>
> Its hard to imagine such courage and bravery (while being scared to
> death). These men and those like them from all over the world were truly
> one of our greatest generations.  Not just for their war effort, but for
> what they did to build the world after WWII.
>
> Gary
>
> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>> "Richard B."  wrote in message
>> news:vs4qp21plvmp3pt0fus1v4hm71fk653ns8{at}4ax.com...
>>>> I'm loving VirtualPC so much, especially on development
machine where
>>>> everything has to be exactly right. Now all I need is a really
>>>> super-duper
>>>> fast new computer (Santa totally bummed out on me this
year ),
>>>> 'cause on
>>>> a laptop with a slow HD it's a wee bit painful. But, then again, a
>>>> re-install takes, what, 4 minutes - and I have a load of
setups on an
>>>> external HD to choose from. Toot toot!
>>> I haven't had time to look into virtualization much, tsk tsk.
>>> I would think it a godsend to developers
>>
>> That it is. I've got a 4G USB stick in my pocket with my development
>> "computer" in it as a virtual image, and all sources
sitting on my server
>> in a VCS, so I can basically just plug the USB stick in and continue
>> working wherever, whenever, and with whatever computer happens to be
>> around. Want to try some new component, or upgrade some development
>> tools - simply make a copy of the virtual image and I'm in business; if
>> it turns out to break something, it takes about two minutes to revert
>> back to the previous state.
>>
>> The only problem is that it's slow on anything except real fast host
>> computers. Delphi 2006, which is what I'm using, is slower than a snail
>> glued to the floor, and in a VM, well, it's so slow that it's almost
>> going backwards... Hope they'll get it snappier with the next batch of
>> updates, 'cause then this setup would be mighty sweet.
>>
>>
>>> I guess you better be better this year so Santa is kinder
>>> and gentler to you.
>>
>> Well I got a case of beer (my father in law always buys me a case of beer
>> for birthday and christmas) and Band Of Brothers DVD box, so I can't
>> complain much really - the beer's all gone already (well duh!), but the
>> Band of Brothers series is really enjoyable.
>>
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>

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