[dundee] Virtualisation, any wise words?

[Lee Hughes]

when you get your VM working with XP then try this
http://autopatcher.com/

well, I used to use this all the time, it was amazing, basically 
patch your system without you having to go and get patches from all of the place,

unfortunately I  check the web site I find this..

'Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and although the download page is merely a collection of mirrors, we took the download page down. '

you may be able to find a download somewhere else! :-((

Looks like microsoft doesn't like people designing tools for
their operating system. 

It's really weird that at university, they are completely 'sold' by microsoft, FORCING students to learn microsoft products at uni, what the hell?

Shouldn't a computing degree be about computing, and not about corporate brand names from a corporation that activities are illegal?

How long before our Uni receives a linux take down notice? hahahahaha

Laters,





Daniel Lamb <daniel.lamb at dlcomputing.co.uk> wrote: For a good free(opensource) av use moon secure av, I wouldn't necessarily
bother about spyware as you are unlikely to surf, please moon secure will
pick up a lot of spyware as well.

Regards,
Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: dundee-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:dundee-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of gordon dunlop
Sent: 03 October 2007 23:42
To: Tayside Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [dundee] Virtualisation, any wise words?

I also must mention that on your Windoze virtual machine you have to put
on security software e.g. avg anti-virus free, spyware blaster (free),
spybot (free) and keep them updated. It is such a pain in setting up  a
Windoze virtual machine after installation, it takes a lot of time
adding the extras, it is great putting on a Linux Mint virtual machine
where all you have to do is the updates (All codecs are in the
installallation).  For the past few days I have been playing about with
Revisor in Fedora 7 where you can make your own customised CD,DVD, Live
CD/DVD by downloading separate packages from different Fedora
Repositories, Fedora is the only distribution where you can define
individual packages at installation using the Anaconda installer (unless
someone tells me otherwise). With Revisor you can make an install DVD
with all propriety codecs, like Linux Mint, or make a server only
distribution within minimum software packages that can run out of the
box. In fact you can make anything that you want to run out of the box,
this intrigues me. I will probably be playing with this for the next few
weeks.

Gordon

chris wyllie wrote:
>
>  Basically, is it a viable option to set up a virtual machine running
> winXP to do my windows development on?



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