Dominic, thousands of thanks for this suggestion. Aside from the
immediate software solution it looks worthwhile as a way of very quickly
comparing Ubuntu and Vista.
On a broader scale what I am also looking at is technological
determinism and ways of evaluating this. It seems to me that it doesn't
work to say it doesn't matter what writing is written on since this
still operates within the limited economy of technological determinism
as an opposition. Taking a suggestion from Marx; from each according to
their abilities and to each according to their needs, this at least
exceeds the limited horizon of bourgeois equality, seems worthwhile.
Hence a need to understand the abilities.... anyways, best wishes, Chris
Jones.
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:50 +0000, Dominic Fox wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Consider running Sun's free VirtualBox software on Ubuntu, and
> installing Vista on a virtual machine. I'm doing it the other way around
> on my laptop - running Ubuntu on a VM in VirtualBox under Vista - and it
> works pretty well. You can set up a directory on the native system to be
> "shared" with the virtual machine, so they can both access the same files.
>
> Dominic
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