[Mgs] Dan H.'s Day ?

[Councill, David]

Might I suggest VirtualBox?
http://www.virtualbox.org/

It's a hell of a program and has a Linux version. Then you can run
Windows on your Linux machine. It has virtual drivers such that your
film scanner will probably work. I don't see why you are paranoid about
running Windows on the Internet like 90+% of all Internet users, most of
them problem free. But I did create one XP virtual machine solely for
the purpose of testing suspicious software and websites. Once I created
the virtual machine which is technically just one large file, I copied
it so I can test and then delete the copy. I also run several Linux
machines, mostly Debian and Linux, on virtual machines including one as
my web/ftp server, mostly because it saved me problems having to roll my
own nvidia video drivers (not that I didn't try first).

VirtualBox is easy to use and free. If you have enough memory on your PC
(meaning Intel computer), this gives you an easy chance to tinker with a
number of different operating systems as a separate window on your Linux
or Windows computer.

David Councill
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-----Original Message-----
From: mgs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of David Breneman
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:39 AM
To: mgs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Dan H.'s Day ?

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com> wrote:

> That should be obvious.  Are you
> personally going to buy a copy of the software for
> everyone?

Hey, I just discovered that myself.  I spoke too soon.  Also,
it only runs on Windoze.  I have one Windows PeeCee, which I
use for my film scanner.  I don't let it on the internet, so
a search utility is useless on it.  When they come out with
a Linux version, maybe I'll give it a shot.