Ge64 Wrote:@ Zinga virtualisation isn't that more like an OS in an OS?
No, it's a technology which allows the CPU to handle multiple OSes at the same time. Like running Windows and Linux natively at the same time (no, nothing like VMware).
By the way, apparently, the software which allows you use Virtualisation, the company decided to release it for free. Forgot the name though.
The original idea behind virtualisation and multiple CPU cores is this: eventually, when you have like 8 cores, there can be multiple OSes installed specifically optimized to do certain tasks, eg a game OS (optimized for gaming) etc etc
Ge64 Wrote:lol the only libraries ive ever been to were closed shut u could barely do anything but word and iexplore
There's a way around everything... :P
Assassinator Wrote:Our public libraries have a kinda system frezze like tool (i don't know what it's called) but u can fudge the system up all u like, and the next time u log in, it's back to the same state again, same programs, same everything, like as if nothing has happened. They use some tool to restore the PC to the same state each time it restarts or something.
Probably DeepFreeze. Interestingly, there's an app which can unlock DeepFreeze - so I just use it, install some stuff, then re-enable DeepFreeze = get something onto the computer :P
Liquid Wrote:Arrgg... Zinga and I have the same processor -- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+. Mine's a socket 939, not sure about his. It makes me angry that it wasn't until the AM2 socket that Virtualization Technology came to play. That would be the one thing that I would want the AM2 for. When I was building my rig, the reviews I read about the AM2 socket and DDR2 support said that the performance gains weren't enough to justify the price differential.
Mine's 939 as well. I knew about the AM2's ability to use VT, also Intel's apparently revolutionary CPU. Thing is, I
really wanted a new computer (couldn't stand my 533MHz Celeron much longer) so I upgraded regardless of knowing that most of the components were going to be updated. I did underestimate the Core 2 though. I did presume it would beat AMDs CPUs, but not by
that much... The value of the 4200+ when I bought it was AU$600, after about 6 months, it dropped to AU$275.
Oh well...