While this doesn't have anything to do with BOINC, I had to comment on a bit of potential insanity I commited yesterday. I have been wanting to have a look at Windows 7 as we still use XP Pro at the office but dont have a spare machine with a DVD-Rom to install the Release Candidate on. I wasn't really expecting this to work but decided to try and install Win7 on my IBM x-Series using the VirtualBox OSE package from the Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager. What I really liked about this program is that you dont need to burn a DVD, you can just use the iso file off the desktop.
My hats' off to the creators of VirtualBox, it all worked first time and Windows 7 installed and runs fine. With a bit of playing around with the network settings, the virtual machine is visible on the general network and the desktop can be accessed by Microsoft's Remote Desktop connection. I have also installed a trial version of the latest MS Office and a couple of people are giving it a test-drive.
Im now just resisting the urge to install BOINC on the virtual machine ...
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