playing safely...

[christian.ampenberger at comcast.net (Chris Ampenberger)]

On Saturday 03 January 2004 12:05, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    From: "D.E. Chadbourne" <235u at comcast.net>
>    Date: 03 Jan 2004 12:04:48 -0500
>
>    > Use vmware or blochs to set up virtual environments. Treat the machine
>    > running the virtuals as though it were a hostile Internet source, and
>    > firewall it off from the rest of your network.
>    >
>    > -dsr-
>
>    wow man, vmware seems very fun!  i've heard of it but never checked it
>    out before.  i just downloaded the trial version of vmware workstation
>    4.  little expensive ($299.00) for little old me playing in the
>    basement.  i'll have to find or think of a way around that.  yes! new
>    toys rule!
>
>    but what the hell is blochs?  altavista only gave me blochs theorem.  i
>    don't think that's what you were pointing me to.
>
> It's actually bochs, not blochs.

I tried bochs on my XP 2800+ with Gentoo and is far too slow. The last week, I 
used the Win4Lin eval, which is quite good, but limited to the Win 9x (95, 
98, Me) versions. With $89 it fits much better in my hobby budget, than 
vmware.

Chris