Yes, I'm an OS junkie. I pretty much run them all on numerous machines. But I've recently set up my main office dual 24" monitor setup as follows: 1. Main box - quad core 64-bit 8gb RAM 1 TB - Vista Home Premium with Ubuntu 9.10 Linux as a dual boot partition 2. MacBook 13.3" - Snow Leopard OSX, 2gb RAM - Bootcamp dual boot to XP Professional 3. Custom KVMA switching - keyboard, DVI video, and audio all switch independently so I can "mix and match". I use 2 mice - USB on the Quad, BluTooth on the Mac - that way I can mouse around either screen, whether I need a keyboard or not. So here's the "on demand" OS combinations I can have (in order of photos): 1. Dual screen Vista 2. Dual screen Linux 3. Vista left, OSX right 4. Vista left, XP right 5. Linux left, OSX right 6. Linux left, XP right It works flawlessly - I normally run Linux left and OSX right - it's all done in switching, so I can just jump over to dual screen Linux if I want, while the Mac still exists in the background, just a switch away - with no need to reboot either box. The only time reboots are needed is going to different boot partitions - but I always have 2 separate OS's running at all times. In the switching photo (last), the switch on the left switches the USB keyboard from the PC to the Mac; the center circular switch switches the right DVI monitor from PC to Mac; the Radio Shack AB switch switches the audio from PC to Mac to the speakers. I could just use the KVMA to switch audio to follow the monitor, but by keeping it independent I can be listening to iTunes on the Mac while in dual-screen Linux or Vista, and vice versa. Same with the keyboard - the DVI KVMA could handle that too, but by keeping it independent I have a lot more options. Pictures of all the combinations below. Yes, I'm an OS geek I guess.... Jedi Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
But of course That addition will come when I get the third 24" monitor, and a second 64-bit quad box Jedi Ps - the Quad will most likely go Win 7 before summer, due to the extreme suckage of Vista.
Very nice I need to learn from the master. I have my laptop dual boot with W7 and OSX. Looks like I have along way to go.
Get laid much? Rhetorical question, no need for a reply. What do you do with those OS installs...beyond fiddling...that cannot be achieved with a good VM?
1. Very Happily married - get laid more than most - you'd be surprised - what kind of question is that exactly? I'm NOT 18 and hate twinkies and Coke.... Oh, it's rhetorical... just saw that (still an odd question given that you know me here on F-Chat..... ) 2. I normally run Linux and Mac - Mac OSX-SN is my main laptop (with XP as backup when I have to run XP for certain software in sales calls). My other travel laptop is Ubuntu 9.10 Linux and XP Pro. I frequently (most often) present products with both, using a MUX to connect to my DVI projector. I always have 2 laptops in my travel case... MacBook with dual OS, and IBM Lenovo ThinkPad with dual OS (same combo of OS's as shown in the office pix). I travel a LOT for business, and rep software/hardware that runs on every OS you can think of - so it's important for me to be fluent in Mac, Linux (Ubuntu mostly, BSD, Redhat, and others that are similar), not to mention XP Pro and Vista... I actually travel with 2 laptops for this reason. So it's a job related issue.... most of my software products require NATIVE environment - NOT VM. (I have that too - Parallels in Mac for the light-duty stuff) - most require full hardware access, therefore VM won't cut it. Bottom line - I'm in sales, and my products cross all the major platforms. I cannot afford to be "OS for Dummies" on a particular OS. Not everyone is Windows 7 and OSX - my clients expect me to KNOW the differences, and fully know the OS involved. I consider myself proficient in ANY major GUI-based OS on the market.... hence my multi OS environment in the office system I pictured in this thread. Right now, today - if you sell cross-platform software, you have to offer XP Pro, Ubuntu, and OSX. Windows 7 soon... that will be laptop III for me, with a new MUX to send it to the projector. Not many clients these days are caring about Vista support.... hmmm But I will keep adapting to be up-to-date on ANY OS that the vendors adopt. Thanks for asking Jedi
All software should be web-based and run in the cloud...no need for multiple OSes, just multiple browsers (including mobile). Why do you need multiple laptops instead of multiple partitions on a single machine? What software do you sell? Sounds interesting. BTW, how come you don't have wireless keyboard, mice and speakers?
Right...whatever. You are some old bald guy that likes to dink around with OS installs all the while doing nothing useful with each. What is the point of this thread? Do we get to coo like schoolgirls at your baldassness or what? Dude..it's an ...OS. Move on. :O
Showoff... That is pretty awesome. But seriously... Vista?!?! -1000 geek points for not replacing that with Win7.
Some devices don't run well under VM. Too slow. The software I sell that runs on OSX, Vista/XP, and Linux is from a company called Luidia - the product is eBeam. It's used in schools around the world as an interactive white board product. Any lag in processing time is annoying. (www.luidia.com) - it was designed for direct hardware access over USB, not for VM. There's a difference. Don't forget - just because the US is Windows XP/Vista/7 does not mean the whole world is - we sell FAR more Linux installations in South America and Eastern Europe than Windows or Mac combined. There are entire countries that are now using Ubuntu and NOT AppleSoft to save money. Under a VM the software is just sluggish. Been there, tried that. I don't write it - I sell it. And if it doesn't show well, it won't sell well. I only posted this cuz I thought it was a clever use of a MacBook and a quad core to get a job done on one desk. Didn't mean to piss everybody off. Now - I'm off to Anaheim for a trade show. Jedi
Korr - you're getting a bit personal in the attack thing here. You know nothing about me, and your comments are really quite rude. Jedi
Agree 100% - in a few years, OS will be totally irrelevant. Just the way it evolved. Were I to start from scratch, that's exactly what I'd do with a MacBook Pro and run them all from there. But I started with a ThinkPad with XP and Linux, then added the MacBook when the OSX version came out. I do when I'm in the field. This is my desktop setup in the office. You can see the product (and download the software if you like) at www.luidia.com. It's a product for schools and boardrooms to make any surface interactive. Good questions Jedi
Nice setup and neat software. I'm on the technology committee for our kids' school, and we have been installing SMART boards in the classroom. How does your product compare on features and price?
Great question! I shouldn't get into a product pitch here, so please PM me and I'll fill you in on all the details. But the short answer - it does 99% of what Smart does, 1/3 the cost, and does lots of things Smart doesn't, and works on ANY standard dry erase board. PM me for more... Jedi
However, in fairness, he did say he *needed* Vista until his S/W got ported to it, so maybe only -500 geek points [Having said that, I've installed "Vista only" S/W under 7 - Had to "trick" the installshield wizard into allowing it, but it did run great - Is the issue that your stuff won't install, or won't run?] I also have one app left that only just runs under Parallels (V4, I've got an offer to upgrade to V5, which may help?) - "Trackvision", which merges data onto video only gets ~10fps in the VM, but the full ~30fps under Bootcamp..... Cheers, Ian PS - 2nd post from Ubuntu PPS - In case anyone hasn't seen it, my 2008 video from Virginia City - Done with Trackvision, primarily under XP/Bootcamp - The video runs smoothly, but the audio is a little "jerky" on this thing.... hmmm... http://vimeo.com/4443638
I have XP, Vista, and 7 installed (on 3 seperate computers ) Very cool, neat setup. If I ever have the time I might end up doing something like this. How long or how much effort does it take?
Actually, it's really very simple. Just need a Mac of reasonable power, with Bootcamp and XP. So you're set on that end. To get EASILY into Ubuntu Linux (IMO, the best "user friendly" Linux distro ever released - YMMV), just Google: "download WUBI" - WUBI is the Windows Ubuntu Installer - utterly harmless way to try out Ubuntu without committing. It installs under Windows (all modern flavors) as a program, but at the same time creates a "virtual partition" of up to 25 GB of your hard drive, and then installs the Linux environment. VERY VERY easy to do - just like installing any other program. Once you have a Windows/Linux box, and a Mac with XP, you just need switches. I used a "no name" USB switch from Amazon ($20). The audio was really easy - just a cheap A/B RCA switch from Radio Shack - that way I can listen to either computer's audio. For the DVI video, it's a Belkin KVM (Google or Amazon and you'll find it) - designed to switch keyboard, DVI Video, and Mouse - I'm just using it for DVI so that I can decide where the keyboard goes myself. For the mouse, the Mac has its own Blue Tooth so I can mouse independently of the PC. Parts in hand, OS issues all in place - it took me 30 minutes and the rest was done. Took longer to make all the wallpapers and pictures needed to make this post than it did to hook it all up. Just PM me and I'd be happy to email you a full hookup diagram complete with part numbers and all that if you like. Jedi
I'm running Vista on my laptop right now. I'll install 7 on it, might put XP on it too, and I'll look into Linux.
Should it be that much worse that every mod agreed with him? And yet you act like a 13 year old again? Calling "tattle tale" on him is / makes you look stupid, as if looking like a punk were not enough. Why hang around FChat if you obviously hate everyone?
