[amsat-bb] Re: Netbooks

[ANTHONY JAPHA]

You guys are way ahead of me.  I'll settle for reality!
I live in a high-rise Manhattan building and must do my satellite operation
by carrying all the needed equipment out to the promenade behind the
building next to the East River (2 miles due north of the UN building). 
I'm looking for a way to lighten the load, and the netbook looks promising.
N3TL even reports that the Yaesu CAT to USB cables he bought worked without
installing new drivers.  That's big  because I don't know how to "map"
another computer's CD drive into a netbook to read any new drivers!

Tnx for the ideas.
73,
Tony


> [Original Message]
> From: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel at ngunn.net>
> To: Bruce Robertson <ve9qrp at gmail.com>
> Cc: myles landstein <myles.landstein at gmail.com>; AMSAT BB
<amsat-bb at amsat.org>; <tjjapha at earthlink.net>
> Date: 12/4/2009 12:19:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Netbooks
>
> Why virtualise?
> Use a dual core processor and run a different operating system on each
core.
>
> Bruce Robertson wrote:
>   the virtualization features turned on so that I can
> > run linux images alongside the Win32 ham stuff.