Occasional Observations

A few days into messing with virtualized versions of Windows and XP beats Vista hands-down - it'll get even faster when I've finished switching off all those unwanted services. Even had a conversation on Skype the other day with someone who was running it within a VM. I haven't gone that far, yet.

Running Vista within Vista was a mistake. My system(s) slowed to a crawl. It was agonizing. A colleague recently told me that these moments spent waiting for the mouse to respond / something / anything to happen actually have a name: Bill Gates Contemplation Moments.

Somewhere at home I've got a CD with the original release of Windows 95, which I haven't used since early 2001. I'm thinking about installing it as a VM and then loading up my copy of Railroad Tycoon - if I can find a working floppy drive to copy the info on to a USB stick. I think we've got a floppy drive somewhere in a box at home although there isn't one that's actually connected to a working computer.

Labels: nerd, virtualization