[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[Gerry Creager]

For me, it was software utility.  I had a nice powerful machine for 
processing GPS geodetic data which loafed along most of the time.  And 
it only ran Linux.  I needed Windoze to run GIS s/w for the other half 
of my day job.  We got a copy of VMWare and installed it and I ran NT4 
as a guess OS on the linux box.  Worked great.  Bothered my coworkers, 
though.

The web server was on native Linux, Netscape browser running on NT4 when 
I was working on ArcView and MapInfo.  I also ran SAMBA to share files 
across.

Explanations were always the fun part.  Most of the folks left about 
half way thru the explanation...

gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
>> Which is the smallest weevil, VM/host OS hardware allocation or
>> AGWPE?  In particular, which is the simplest for a novice to deal
>> with, assuming soundmodem is not in the picture?
> 
> I don't know what the VMWare stuff looks like these days, but way
> back when the serial port setup was pretty easy.  I don't imagine
> they made it much more difficult over the years.
> 
> With AGWPE though you can use the same TNC for both Linux and
> Windows OS on the same machine, or use completely different machines
> to access them, so that's one advantage.  Also, if people already
> have a working AGWPE install due to their playing around with
> Windows APRS software earlier, they can take advantage of that.
> 
> What was really funny way back when was running Windows NT4 and
> Linux at the same time, running Samba on the Linux side sharing
> drives to the Windows side.  Also running an Apache web server on
> Linux and the browser on Windows.  Kind'a strange being able to do
> all of this on the same box, but I got used to it quickly.  It was
> in the "explaining it to others" category where it got funny.
> 
> --
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