On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM, David Gwynne <l...@animata.net> wrote: > On 30/12/2008, at 7:01 AM, bofh wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> >> wrote: >>> >>> Still doesn't allow you to plug in cables; move cards around, insert a >>> cd etc. Writing/debugging drivers remotely sucks. One also doesn't get >>> any of the hints from the hardware like leds blinking fan noise etc. >> >> Hey, you can do all that in a VM!!! > > i have a bad habit of crashing the vms host system when i do that.
Well, shoot, run that in a VM then! :) At one point, I was seriously thinking about something along the lines of: Sparc -> Mac Emulator (this would be OS6/7 IIRC) -> A/UX -> Windows Emulator -> Linux just to say I did it. Fortunately, my MUDs took priority and I left that insane thought behind. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
