It's OT for this thread, but for your information BBC BASIC is currently one of the most popular languages for teaching programming in UK schools. For example it is recommended by the OCR examining board:
Good grief. Are they doing it on punched cards, too?
Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried that. My printer (HP1100) was a cheap and simple one which depends upon the computer for its rasterisation, and that's what prevents a generic driver from working.
Ah, a "WinPrinter".
Throw it in the bin, buy a HP LJ5m on eBay, plug it into your network and be happy.
that ws te one blot on an otherwise beautiful 64 bit landscape when I moved to 64 bit linux|: no scanner drivers for the HP scanner.
So I gave it to my wife for her mac and bought a ten year old heap of shit from ebay.
I use it solely for scanning scale drawings for tracing: If I want actual color rendition I use an anglepoise lamp and a DLSR. Its actually better quality - but you cant rely on it for exact dimensions due to the inevitable barrel and pincushion and perspective issues.
Yep, 3 holes including parity.
It's good for the soul (but bad for the digestion).
DerekG
You can if the host is Linux up to a point.
I have one 'mapped' drive which is the linux machines home directory that is there by default. Since everything else up to and including the local server, and drives a 150 miles way is NFS mounted on that, they simply appear as as subdirs of that drive.
Networked printers* simply have their own windows drivers to the network.
The sound works flawlessly from host or guest or indeed both together...
USB devices are somewhat trickier, as is the CD ROM. You have to decide who 'owns' it....
*including a parallel connected printer connected to a linux server.I cant answer for how crap a windows hosted virtual box is but a linux hosted one is way way better than you might expect.
I am not proposing that the OP goes this route, but a 64 bit linux with a legacy 32 bit XP in a virtual box is what runs here. Don't ask where the XP came from...
so do I because it went funny on more.. but boy I need 8GB because that
2GN is stolen irrevocably from Linux when XP is running and I have seen the host go into major thrash when a lot of windows are open on it.Howver I dont often use windows any more.
Only if I have some serious graphics work to do and then its my chief task so I can shut down almost everything else beyond a web browser and mail.
The other use fr XP is to test web sites against IE6. If it works with IE6 it generally works with anything...
that's true but you probably wouldn't choose a legacy 32 bit OS for handling that sort of data.
I do big graphics sometimes: that's where I run out of RAM.
Well they still vote on them in the US - pregnant chads and all that.
Excellent, good to see schools keeping up their track record of not having a clue about IT.
Why? Surely you want to read it from a file, process that bit and write it back. The disk would be the limiting factor, it certainly can be for video processing.
That's not true, win7 works well in less RAM than XP.
keep your old xp machine and your old printer for printing, turn them on when needed, the win7 machine should be able to network to them which should be easier than all this virtual malarky?
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I have played with a few of them, and with the exception of handling more exotic graphics modes, they all seem pretty solid. I have had a SuSe, Ubunto, WinXP, and a couple of Win Server 2003 instances all running concurrently under a Win XP host and they are happy to chat to each other over the network and share resources etc.
Not in my experience...
Hence why they have Win 7 Lite for use on netbooks that run XP just fine...
Minimum requirements for Win 7
Yup, I find 32 bit XP is beginning to flag a bit on a 4GB platform in Photoshop CS5.1
Its about the only time I have felt it would be nice to have 64 bit and
8GB of RAM or more.
I think you just answered your own question... the disk would be a limiting factor, and massively slower than carrying operations out on the whole file in ram. Especially if you need several operations in sequence.
They run win7 fine too. However the lite version is a marketing version that allows it to be cheap without making people put the real win7 on notebooks and desktops cheaply.
No, as you say it runs on netbooks.
That is just cr@p software. There is seldom any need to apply one operation to a whole video and then another to a whole video followed by another, etc. You just apply them all to the stream.
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