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Jul. 4th, 2006 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramtopsI stepped out of the house for just 15 minutes yesterday (there was a crisis in the wine rack, so I popped up to the wonderful local offy to replenish the white wine stocks at about 7 p.m.).
and when I returned, there was a copy of PagePlus 11 pushed through the letterbox. This has presumably been delivered by Geoff, the head honcho of the local bit of the local party organisation; he said he would drop it off, and I said I didn't run Windows, and would do what they needed in something else. I suspect desperation set in - he probably lurked outside the door until he saw me go out ...
except of course, I do run Windows, sort of - I have to, because so many other people do. I run:
and even better than that, I found a little gadget from www.Xutils.com/ which allows me to run multiple instances of RDC, which is Simply Fab.
perhaps I'll tell them all this at the meeting on Monday - that should make their brains implode, don't you think?
and when I returned, there was a copy of PagePlus 11 pushed through the letterbox. This has presumably been delivered by Geoff, the head honcho of the local bit of the local party organisation; he said he would drop it off, and I said I didn't run Windows, and would do what they needed in something else. I suspect desperation set in - he probably lurked outside the door until he saw me go out ...
except of course, I do run Windows, sort of - I have to, because so many other people do. I run:
- an RDC connection to our W2KAS server, which only gives me 256 colours, but as all I want it for is Ameol (for CIX, which is text only), and a quick CSS sanity check on IE6, it's perfectly adequate, and quite quick
- and a couple of Virtual PCs on this dual 2.5Ghz G5, one for the accounts and IE6, and one for IE7. But quick they ain't - roll on a) the decent Mac Intel desktops, and b) the money to buy one. The latter will be the delaying factor, I fear.
and even better than that, I found a little gadget from www.Xutils.com/ which allows me to run multiple instances of RDC, which is Simply Fab.
perhaps I'll tell them all this at the meeting on Monday - that should make their brains implode, don't you think?
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Date: 2006-07-04 10:34 am (UTC)nope. still doesn't compute ;-p
"make their brains implode"
Be prepared for a major clean-up operation afterwards!
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Date: 2006-07-04 10:43 am (UTC)I've done that for years simpy by having multiple copies of the Remote Desktop Connection executable named Remote Desktop Connection 2, Remote Desktop Connection 3 etc.
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Date: 2006-07-04 10:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-04 12:57 pm (UTC)OLR
Date: 2006-07-05 08:13 am (UTC)Sid
Re: OLR
Date: 2006-07-05 09:00 am (UTC)as a web developer, I *have* to have Windows available to me all the time, so I stick with Ameol.