Friday Five
If you...
1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Things with rice, potatoes, noodles, cheese, and corned beef hash.
2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Bandwidth. (Yes, I aspire to run an ISP one day)
3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Hmm... Either Sci/Fi, Romance, or How-To
4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Circuit Theory
5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Trance and Delirium, mostly because you don't want to hear me sing.
But that will only come with another topic. ;)
Like this weeks alternative discussion: Bochs.
Bochs (Pronounced Box) is an IA-32 Processor and system environment emulator. In layman's terms, that means it is a PC emulator. But why would someone like me, a PC user, even need such a program? The answer is actually very simple, I can emulate a linux console inside of the windows environment without having to reformat my PC. Can't get Knoppix to run on it (lol) but all of my boot disks work with it, and when I have the time I may try installing a full blown linux dist on it. The problem is that, like with any emulated system, the Emulated PC in Bochs runs MUCH slower than a real pc. So I figure it will take me about a day to actually install a minimum text install. But that's the way things go.
Really what makes me excited about this though, is that many of the older DOS only games like CIV I and the like have reopened to me. I can just make disk images, or directly map the the drive and run it in the console. I think I might try cranking up the IPS though, mostly because 500KIPS is actually really cruddy. But then again, I don't think that's the cause, I think it's just that emulating a PC on a PC is a daunting task. Well see when I get the time to mess with it. :)
Now what I really need is a VM system
Mood: Excited