11:42 PM - Windows on my Mac
It took me 6 hours, but i got VS.NET 2003 Acedemic Pro with full MSDN docs installed in my VPC Win2k instance. I can now write windows apps on my iBook. It only cost about 5 gigs of space!
I'll have to burn some stuff to get more room as i only have 9.4 gigs remaining on a brand new computer.
Its rather responsive consider i have 128mb ram and only 64 allocated to vpc. The G4 chip really helps. It only takes a supercomputer to emulate a PC chip. Interestingly, PowerPC chips can't be emulated on an x86 chip. The only possible way to do it would be to convert the instructions and compile them which would be to slow to be useful.
VPC was the reason i chose the ibook over the compaq laptop i was looking at. I figured i could write windows, mac and unix stuff on a mac. Only windows and unix were available in windows. I do miss freebsd native though. If i had a bigger drive, i'd dual boot netbsd or darwin on this machine. At the very least i'd install freebsd in vpc.
The largest drive for an ibook was a 60 gig. I had to get a 14 inch in order to do that.. not enough money.
I've already paid back 100 bucks on my laptop. :)
I also bought a 128mb stick from crucial which shipped tonight. Its already in wyoming. 2 day shipping too. I'll have it by the 17th.
I wanted to port kards.com today to java but got stuck writing an app to connect to UPS for rates. (VB.NET) I used caryn's computer to do that (VPC win xp).
I watched the hound of the baskervilles today. I have a vhs tape with the A & E version from several years back i taped on cable. Pretty kewl.
Caryn's present came today for christmas. She's reading it now. My dad's came as well. I got him a history channel dvd set. He will like it if he doesn't already have it.
My aunt sent us a gift certificate for media play. The closet one is indiana and their website is broken and doesn't accept gift certificates.
JJ will expire soon. I will need to buy the domain again with my christmas money. I have to get an SSL cert for fg too. In the short term, i'll just make one with openssl. I want to buy one for JJ as well.
I'm starting to feel smart again. It must be the attitude at western that brings me down. How lousy.
My new mac has several kewl games loaded on it now...
RTCW
DOOM 1 & 2
quake
tony hawk 4
spy hunter
Trek (my asteroids clone)
sim tower
sim city 2000
leisure suit larry 1 (grayscale original)
chopper 1.0
Nascar 2003
Several of those are native with a few that require emulation or classic.
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