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And one more: I'm using a 2TB NAS system (Thecus) to store shared 
things. Works great (things to add: automatic backup to Amazon S3 
(now you know why I want it)). Than I have two PCs (1 Desktop and 
1 Laptop) and 1 Mac Mini (Intel)


The Mac Mini is a totaly cool machine. Silent, fast, and it just 
works.


Hence, my next desktop will become a Mac Pro. Hopefully VMWare works 
than.

VMWare is x86 only though ....

To get rid of reinstalling everything I have packed two things into 
a VMWare:

1. My office stuff. Only office and some add-ons nothing else. (To 
keep it alive)

2. My development setup. Everything configured, compiler, include 
paths etc. Totally self contained.


Than one that I don't use that much for some apps like graphics stuff.

robert, VMWare should work fine now in MacOSX?

I haven't tried it, but good hint, if it's available I give it a 
try.

I heard that Parallels eats a lot of memory and degrades in performance 
over time, so VMWare is perhaps better.

Going for a VMWare for development was my best decision. I hate it 
to setup/move complex environment with different compilers etc. As 
long as you have enough memory, you don't feel a speed difference. 
For some things I even have the feeling it's faster.

So: NAS (and use Gigabit ethernet), VMWare for stuff you will use 
for years and don't want to reinstall and keep protected by wild 
software setups, and if everything you need is available for Mac, 
go for a Mac.

Ah, and I have one more VMWare for testing software.

BTW: For single apps, going with application virtualization is a 
good choice too. You can get Office packed into 4 EXE files.

I have ordered my guys to prepare new notebook for me. Recently I 
have Core Duo Dell, but one month after purchase keyboard broke and 
now USB ports don't work well. Vista today ruined my whole REBOL 
USB pen directory, damned. It finds my usb pen on some ports every 
30 secs. What is more, I have 7200rpm drive, battery lasts only some 
two hours. Now I will have well, Dell once again, this time with 
slower HD but 2 GB RAM. I was at VMWare presentation for our datacenter 
just yesterday and I really liked it, so I am putting it on my notebook 
too ...

The more I can virtualize the "still Windows only apps" I will move 
away from this crappy PC stuff.

That way I can finally not hesitate to try Syllable, some Linuxes, 
etc. Man, Vista is so useless. So much of wasted resources imo. XP 
SP2 just does everything you need.

Yes, and as soon as MS forces you to use Vista I'm switching to Mac 
:-)

Mac is rather expensive here though ....

Are you sure OS-X is better than Vista? OS-X is friendly Linux, no? 
Why not e.g. Ubuntu? :-)

Isn't it there yet? :-)

Yes, but it's worth the money. If I save 20h per year by using a 
Mac the ROI is more than enough.

OSX just works. It's really nicely done. Covers the whole Unix core 
from user, but you can still get access to it.

My girlfriend needed 15 minutes to switch from Windows to Mac and 
haven't asked me anything since than... So it has a good WAF = women 
acceptance factor.

WAF - LOL :-)

Robert - still working with REBOL from time to time? :-) We'll upgrade 
SAP BW this year and SAP next year. I just wonder, if there is anything 
better for reporting than BW :-) Not everything is covered by that 
and e.g. in financial area we got some other offer. That whole area 
so overlaps with various offers, that it is kind of difficult to 
get myself oriented :-)

Robert, doing the same here. Pulled my last WinXP out behind the 
shed a few weeks ago and shot it. Just need some way to get encap 
for windows working again.

The more I can virtualize the 'still Windows only apps'

 ... you can even replace Windows itself these days without resorting 
 to Wine. Check out ReactOS ( http://www.reactos.org/), quite a few 
 forum posts indicating that folks are running it on Mac under Parallels 
 ... there was even mention of REBOL/View running on it.

Ashley, well it's a bit early to switch to it. But my needs for Win 
only apps is really vanishing. I think getting Office for Mac would 
be enough to switch. And of course, doing my own transition phase 
to find all the equivalent tools on Mac.

I downloaded the reactos livecd, and couldn't find any pc that it 
would successfully boot.  I also tried the LivePC version and it's 
highly unstable

I'm building a computer system for my friend. The motherboard comes 
with a magnetic ring which is supposed to reduce interference. But 
which cables is it supposed to go on ? (I think I've seen it in another 
system around the front led/power/reset cables.)

the ones going to the front panel

thanks, Graham.

I'm considering getting the new Apple iPhone.  Does anyone have any 
ideas or opinions on what it would take to get rebol to work on that 
platform?  Or is that an unrealistic goal?  What would it take to 
get rebol to work on that platform?

A web-based console?

Patrick, as the iPhone uses a "stripped" down version of OSX, I think 
it should be pretty simple.

But, you need access to the source-code. So, no chance for R2. R3 
will be possible but is not yet ready for prime-time.

R2, no, but R3 will eventually be there. If Carl releases the code, 
I'm willing to buy one and do the port myself...

Hmm, but - can you freely port apps to iPhone? IIRC you need their 
SDK, and you need to plug your app into kind of iTunes app delivery 
infrastructure, no?

I'm not sure they will allow runtimes and emulators meant for running 
other programs on the iPhone. it will probably need to be done on 
a jailbroken iPhone.

You can't port REBOL as-is to the iPhone with their SDK, as the SDK 
license specifically forbids porting programming languages, though 
compiled languages might be allowed if they cross-compile from the 
development machine. Runtime code generation is prohibited.

then screw iPhone ....

HTC Diamond is the answer then ...

On the other hand, REBOL isn't really a programming language: it's 
a structure processor with a set of library functions available at 
runtime. Encapped apps may be legal.

REBOL on the iPhone would make sense if we have decent integration 
with its builtin facilities, particularly its graphics and animation.

You cannot sell or distribute the REBOL interpreter. But that does 
not mean you cannot create iPhone apps with REBOL. REBOL basically 
becomes an add-on to their SDK. :)

USB 3 coming soon    http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/08/13/intels-usb-3-0-xhci-goes-gold

Does anyone know if usb flash drives have a unique ID that can be 
read via rebol.


I'm nearly ready to release an app and I'm trying to come up with 
some methods of  "copy protection".

copy protection
 :)

license key

??

I'm not aware of any hardware id ... except the cpu one

and most of the time it's turned off

I thought I rad something somewhere abouta device ID on the flash 
 drive... I do another search.